Open Studio May 4, 5 11-5pm ICB

I will be unveiling my latest book, Omo Valley: Vanishing Tribes, at my Open Studio, Saturday and Sunday, May 4-5 from 11am to 5pm. It will also be available on Amazon.com starting April 20, 2013.

Omo Valley is in the Southwest corner of Ethiopia and I traveled there this past January to visit the tribes and document their way of life while they are still living in their remote villages.

My travels in the last eight years have primarily been to experience non-Western cultures. The impact of what I learned on these travels has changed my focus from painting back to photography, which I did in the late 60's and 70's. I'm also creating videos; my first video, Painting with Elephants, will be on Marin TV this summer. With this new direction of mine, I'm doing less painting and more editing so I'm moving my studio to my home, making this my final Open Studio at ICB.

Hope you can stop by and visit the first weekend in May:


Industrial Center Building, Studio 330B
480 Gate 5 Road,
Sausalito, CA

Omo Valley: Vanishing Tribes

My new book will be available on Amazon.com on April 20, 2013

This is a paper back version of my photos of seven different tribes in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

The Omo Valley tribes I visited (Mursi, Hamer, Desanesh, Dorze, Konso, Tsemay and Ari) are still very primitive. The people live in one room huts with no electricity or water.

I got my BA in Cultural Anthropology and visiting these tribes was an amazing experience and something I had long dreamed of. I'm planning on returning to make a documentary  about the changes happening in this area because of the influx of foreign agricultural investors to this fertile area.