Song of the Omo Valley | Tribes of the Omo | Full Documentary | Daniel Sullivan

Before the dam changed everything, photojournalist Daniel Sullivan spent years documenting the tribes of Ethiopia's Omo Valley — one of the most isolated and culturally extraordinary regions on earth. The Kara, the Mursi, the Hamar, the Nyangatom. People who had lived along the banks of the Omo River for thousands of years, drawing everything from it — drinking water, fish, agriculture, livestock, identity. This documentary is based on Sullivan's published book Tribes of the Omo Valley, built from years of photojournalistic fieldwork in a region most of the world will never see. At the time of filming, the Gibe III dam — Africa's most controversial hydroelectric project — was still under construction. Half a million people had no idea what was coming. The dam was completed in 2016. The flooding of the lower Omo Valley began shortly after. The tribes are still there. The river they knew is not. 📚 About the Book Tribes of the Omo Valley by Daniel Sullivan — available at danielsullivanp