Travel nominee

This serie of portraits was taken among the tribes of Omo River Valley, Southern Ethiopia in summer 2017. These tribes are in the edge of their extinction…and we must think, urgently, about this.
The ethnocentric vision has been the basis of colonialism that is destroying the ancestral ways of life and is altering the vision of ancient societies. In the eyes of some people, these societies remain anchored, with their eyes closed, in a increasingly and untenable concept of past.
The action of opening or closing the eyes is independent of any judgment, but this work faced ourselves the need to take stance. Thus, I search the artistic metaphor that allows us to reach out to the "otherness". And here the position is established through a picture, in essence free of the only causal relationship between the spectator and the model: the look.

Czuko Williams is a photographer based in Madrid (Spain) He has a PhD in History and he is a Museums and Exhibitions Curator. His main awards are:

2018.- Nominee. Fine Art Photography Award. Travel
2018.- Nominee. Fine Art Photography Award. Portrait
2016.- Accesit Foto Nikon Spain.
2015.- Accesit Foto Nikon Spain.
2015.- Third Price at XVIII Luis Valtueña International Award on Humanitarian Photography.
2014.- Accesit Foto Nikon Spain.
His work has been show at:
2018.- Work of Serie "Ape Dumma - Open your eyes" selected for public exhibition at Hellerau Intrnational Portraits Award at Europäisches Zentrum der Künste
2017.- Camina conmigo. Santiago de Compostela (Acción e intervención expositiva en el Camino de Santiago)
2016.- En sus zapatos. (Open Air Exhibition at the Pilgrim's road to Santiago de Compostela)
2016.- Sin Filtros (Collective Exhibition in Matadero. Madrid)
2015.- XVIII Premios Luis Valtueña 2014 (Collective Exhibition). Centro Centro. Madrid
2015.- FOTOCAM 2014 (Collective Exhibition. Madrid Region)
2014.- Crisis y contestación social. La Mirada de cuatro fotógrafos. Escuela Julián Besteiro. Unión General de Trabajadores. Madrid
1995.- Naturis. Centro Cultural de Prádena de la Sierra (Segovia)