Caption

Portrait of a frightened young woman. She belongs to the Agaw ethnic group. northern Ethiopia. She is an orthodox christian hailing from a remote part of the Ethiopian highlands. She has left her village where her family is farming to migrate to Mekele, the capital of Tigray state, in search of a job. Like other persons from her group, she is disregarded by mainstream Ethiopians. She is suffering from social stigmatization because of her poverty. Her ethnic group is also written agow, agew

Date

Jan 26, 2016

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Franck Metois

Reference

BRK24I46_223

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

34,5Mb (1,4Mb) / 14,2in x 9,4in / 4256 x 2832 (300dpi)

Keywords

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