Terry Mendoza have been traveling to remote parts of Africa for the last five years.
A photographer has spent five years documenting tribes in Africa before Western influences erode traditional culture.
“What I discovered is that tribal dress and lifestyles have remained unchanged for hundreds and even thousands of years,” he tells“Tribal dress started to change once missionaries imposed a style of dress that accorded with their Western standards of modesty, often destroying tribal relics and beaded clothing, substituting football shirts in their place!”“However Westernisation in recent years has accelerated this cultural destruction; roads have been built to areas that only had dirt tracks,...
“I am conscious that our own presence could have its own negative impact, so we were sensitive to what we brought to these communities and how we behaved. Our priority was to develop a rapport with people, it was never a ‘run and gun’ activity.”
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