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Blacksmith from Tanqasi village

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.
Blacksmith from Tanqasi village

Man with gun and his son from Niaro

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: The Nuba are very proud of their children, but also of their weapons. When I took this man's portrait, he insisted that his old hunting rifle should also be in the picture.
Man with gun and his son from Niaro

Tea shop lady from Dinder

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of a tea shop lady from Dinder
Tea shop lady from Dinder

Woman and her children from Niaro

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.
Woman and her children from Niaro

Dirge singers at a funeral in Fungor

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
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.
Dirge singers at a funeral in Fungor

Two young women from Niaro

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
Two young women from Niaro

Young man with Kalashnikov from Fungor.

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 man with Kalashnikov from Fungor.

Mother from Juba

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.
Mother from Juba

Old woman with her grandchildren from Niaro

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of an elderly lady from Niaro together with two of her grandchildren
Old woman with her grandchildren from Niaro

Nomad from the Bayuda with his children and camels

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of a Nubian nomad from the Bayuda with his two camels and his two sons. The camel is still the main means of transport for the nomads in Sudan, if they can afford one. We met the group on a tour through the Bayuda far from any settlement.
Nomad from the Bayuda with his children and camels

Woman from Fungor

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Snapshot: A woman walking along one of the paths between the huts of Fungor. The fact that she suddenly looked to the side gives the image a strong dynamic that fascinated me at that moment.
Woman from Fungor

Tea shop lady from Karima

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of a tea shop lady from Karima
Tea shop lady from Karima

Two travellers in Abu Hashim

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Two travellers in Abu Hashim, snapshot. Their clothes show that they are not from Sudan. Their colourful dresses contrast nicely with the turquoise of the dress of the woman in whose direction one of them is looking
Two travellers in Abu Hashim

Young man with Kalashnikov from Niaro

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: The Nuba men usually carry their weapons with them at all times, not only the former SPLA fighters…
Young man with Kalashnikov from Niaro

Women and children in Niaro

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Women and children in a lane of the small village, which lies in the middle of the outcrops in the Nuba Mountains in Niaro.
Women and children in Niaro

Man and son from Niaro

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Detail of the portrait series of the man with his son
Man and son from Niaro

Tim Kendall during excavations at the Jebel Barkal

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Photo of Tim Kendall documenting the inscriptions on the freshly excavated columns in the palace of the Kushite king Aspelta - a dusty affair. In the background is El-Hassan from the Sudanese Heritage Department, supervising the excavations.
Tim Kendall during excavations at the Jebel Barkal

Mechanics in a Khartoum car workshop

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of the mechanics during the repair of my Landcruiser in Khartoum
Mechanics in a Khartoum car workshop

Old woman from Niaro

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of an elderly lady from Niaro
Old woman from Niaro

The guard of the el-Kurru cemetery at his home

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of the guard of the Cushite cemetery of el-Kurru in his courtyard in the village of el-Kurru. He is standing in front of the wreckage of his old taxi, which he always wanted to restore, but which apparently never happened. In the foreground a hibiscus plant with red flowers.
The guard of the el-Kurru cemetery at his home

Nuba girl with her little brother from Niaro

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of a little girl who, like a mother, is holding her little brother in her arms. She looks a little uncertainly into the camera, as she has probably not encountered a photographing European too often. The little boy, on the other hand, looks very calmly, almost even dignified into the camera. The Nuba love jewellery and wear necklaces and bracelets every day since their early childhood.
Nuba girl with her little brother from Niaro

Man firing salutes with his Kalashnikov at a funeral service in Fungor

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: At funeral ceremonies, the Nuba men shoot a salute into the air to salute the deceased
Man firing salutes with his Kalashnikov at a funeral service in Fungor

Farmer from Dar el-Arab

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of an old farmer from Dar el-Arab
Farmer from Dar el-Arab

Young smoking man sitting on an angareb

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of a young man from Niaro. He is sitting on the edge of an angareb smoking a cigarette and drinking Marisa, a traditional, locally produced beer. On the right side of the angareb is a portable radio. Besides a digital watch and the European clothes that the Nuba usually get from international aid supplies, he wears his traditional utensils, for example, the knife on his upper left arm and a bracelet with talismans on his upper right arm. His head is covered by a plastic hat he borrowed from his wife. It is impossible for a Nuba to be photographed without headgear.
Young smoking man sitting on an angareb

Woman with her two sons from Niaro

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Photo from a family portrait series from Niaro. When asked, the woman confirmed that she had been photographed by Leni Riefenstahl as a child in the 1960s
Woman with her two sons from Niaro

Two young ladies from Umm Duras

Collection: pawelwolf.pawelwolf
Description: Portrait of two young ladies from the island of Umm Duras in the 4th Cataract
Two young ladies from Umm Duras
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