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Travelling through the Western Desert

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: The Western Desert between the Second and Third Cataracts is nowadays almost deserted and devoid of vegetation. The mountains are covered by sand dunes, some of which are very high. The photo was taken on a joint tour with Derek Welsby and Bill Adams, on which we visited the sites where Bill Adams had excavated in the 1960s.

Blacksmith from Tanqasi village

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of a blacksmith from Tanqasi who had helped me repair the springs of my off-road vehicle. When it came to shortening a large spring from a minibus, he had just made a small fireplace in his yard in front of the veranda of his house and forged the spring without further ado.

Young girl from Niaro

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of a young girl from Niaro - South Kurdofan

End of an asphalt road - end of civilization

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: The end of the unfinished asphalt road between Seleim and Old Dongola

Dirge singers at a funeral in Fungor

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Description: The mourners, who accompany the traditional funeral ceremonies with hour-long funeral dirges, are an ancient tradition that was already depicted on ancient Egyptian and Cushite reliefs.

Serir and hamada landscape in the Western Desert

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Serir and hamada landscape in the Western Desert

Tea and Coffee in Khartoum

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Tea shop in the Montega of Khartoum

Two young women from Niaro

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of two young ladies and two little girls among the gneiss outcrops into which the village huts are built. The coloured dresses of the ladies harmonise with the brown tones of the surroundings and yet are amazing points of contrast

Woman and her children from Niaro

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of a young woman from Niaro and her kids. It is an ancient tradition of the Nuba to wear a lot of colourful jewellery even in everyday life. The women's jewellery consists mainly of necklaces which, in addition to the many small plastic beads, combine traditional jewellery objects such as the kawri shells with recent objects, for example a key ring in the shape of a car tyre.

Teenager from South Sudan

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of a youngster from South Sudan in Khartoum

Nuba wrestling in Khartoum

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Nuba wrestling in Khartoum, Haj Hussif

Victor Stores, P.O. Boxsie 99, Juba

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Victor Stores, a general tools and car spare parts shop in Juba

Bedford in Dinder town

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Description: Bedford in Dinder town, detail

Children at a water pump

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Children getting water at a pump near Abu Hashim

Landscape at the 4th Cataract

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Landscape near Dar el-Arab at the 4th Cataract

Halima from Karima

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of Halima, the cook on Tim Kendall's excavations at Jebel Barkal

Tea shop lady from Dinder

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of a tea shop lady from Dinder

Abdou from Musawwarat

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of Abdou, one of the foreworkers at the Humboldt-University excavations in Musawwarat

Smoking mechanic on the ferry of Sesebi

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of the mechanic of the Sesebi ferry, smoking a cigarette during a break. On his left forearm he has a gold-plated wristwatch. As the barrels in front of him contain diesel, there is no danger of explosion.

View into the valley of Musawwarat es-Sufra

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: View into the valley of Musawwarat es-Sufra from a mountain in the north of the valley. Between the solitary mountain in the foreground and the mountains in the background, one can see the large hafir (artificial water basin from the Kushite era) with the excavation house of Humboldt University on the left. To the right of this mountain, part of the Great Enclosure of Musawwarat es-Sufra can be seen in the background.

Young man with Kalashnikov from Fungor.

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of a young man sitting together with other people under a Rakuba in Fungor. As there are no state institutions in the small Nuba villages and thus no police or similar, the men, especially the former SPLA fighters, often carry their weapons, which they still have from the civil war.

Young woman in nomadic hut

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of a young woman sitting on an angareb in a nomadic hut. The family's belongings are stored hanging from the ceiling and walls of the hut.

Man and children

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: Portrait of a man and two young boys at a shop on the way to the Nuba Mountains

Mother from Juba

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Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf

Description: This woman lives in one of the outskirts of Juba. When we visited her, she told us about her son who died in the war between North and South Sudan. He is buried right next to her house.