![Closeup portrait of a young man in a headdress](/sites/default/files/styles/max_640x640/public/images/158_R_3ltb2YIlORz5uSm_Omo_Cruickshank.jpg?itok=uqmwHUkp)
"Omo Valley Man"
Location: Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Date: July 2016
Photographer: Brian Cruickshank @brian_cruickshank
Affiliation: Alumni
Home Country: United States
Category: People
Award: Honorable Mention
2023 International Photography Exhibition
While in the Omo Valley (Ethiopia), I entered a Mursi village and met this man who allowed me to take this photograph in his hut. It’s an intense, close and tight portrait that I think works especially well in black and white.