Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher met while photographing a Maasai Warrior ceremony in 1978. They have spent the last 3 decades traveling throughout 40 of Africa’s 54 countries making a photographic record of sacred tribal rituals. Many of the tribes and the ceremonies that they have recorded no longer exist. Beckwith and Fisher have earned the reputation of being the foremost visual anthropologists producing an extensive photographic record of African traditions. They have produced over 10 volumes of photographic work and have had many international museum exhibitions.
Twenty-two years ago these two acclaimed photographers became the first Westerners to penetrate into the isolated lands of the Karo and Surma tribes in Southwest Ethiopia. They traveled by mule over mountain passes and spent a great deal of time learning the language of the people, their cultural traditions and rites of passage. They painstakingly recorded the richness and uniqueness of native customs and rituals.
