Conflict and Costume: The Herero Tribe of Namibia

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Clik here to view.Herero woman in orange dress in cow dance pose Photography by Jim NaughtenWhen celebrated photographer Jim Naughten visited Namibia for the first time after just leaving college, he encountered a “curiously out-of-place German colonial port,” in the town of Luderitz, before travelling into the harsh and isolated Namib Desert, where he saw people and landscapes influenced by a still-present colonial past.

“The incongruity of these images,” he writes in his artist’s monograph, Con...

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