Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 94 images found }

Loading ()...

  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher, examines a gem as she prepares to polish it at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. (Mestilde Shigwedha was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many. "Mesti," as she is called, grew up in the north of Namibia near the Angola border in a mud and stick house that she helped cement with dung. She now rents a room in a house in Windhoek and supports family members and herself on her small income from Namcot.  MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090306_133_xw.jpg
  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, drinks tea with a colleague during a break in the company cafeteria.  Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090306_228_xw.jpg
  • Springbok at Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. (from Wikipedia).
    NAM_090312_343_xw.jpg
  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. - from Wikipedia
    NAM_090312_222_xw.jpg
  • An ostrich at Sossusvlei, in the central Namib desert, southwestern Namibia. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. (from Wikipedia).
    NAM_090312_127_xw.jpg
  • A diamond polisher works on a gem in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090306_119_xw.jpg
  • A diamond polisher examines a gem in a polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090306_117_xw.jpg
  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. -Wikipedia
    NAM_090312_189_xw.jpg
  • A supervisor inspects a gem in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090306_093_xw.jpg
  • Diamond polishers speak to their supervisors at Namcot Diamonds, a diamond cutting and polishing company in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090306_088_xw.jpg
  • Diamond polishers play a game of dominoes during a break at NamCot Diamonds, a diamond cutting and polishing company in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090306_065_xw.jpg
  • Diamond polishers work on their gems in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090305_039_xw.jpg
  • A diamond polisher works on a gem in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090305_023_xw.jpg
  • Diamond polishers work on their gems in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090305_007_xw.jpg
  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. - from Wikipedia
    NAM_090313_138_xw.jpg
  • Diamond polishers work on their gems in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090306_072_xw.jpg
  • Supervisors coordinate operations in a diamond polishing  factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090305_049_xw.jpg
  • A tourist takes pictures in the Dead Vlei, a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, a drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. -Wikipedia
    NAM_090312_080_xw.jpg
  • A diamond polisher works on a gem in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
    NAM_090306_254_xw.jpg
  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia with her day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090306_322_xxw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua's older brother plays with her son as she eats porridge left over from breakfast in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_200_xxw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba chief at his home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.
    NAM_090308_915_xw.jpg
  • Traditionally dressed Himba boys and girls sit in a hut made of wood and earth in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.
    NAM_090308_911_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua speaks to a neighbor outside her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_804_xw.jpg
  • A Himba woman carries an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) filled with milk after milking cows in a corral in the village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. During the rainy season there is plenty of grass for the animals to eat but the mud and manure of the corral are problematic.
    NAM_090308_713_xw.jpg
  • A Himba boy with his mouth covered with cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
    NAM_090308_698_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman (at left), stands in a corral filled with cows in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    NAM_090308_582_xw.jpg
  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_554_xw.jpg
  • Traditionally dressed Himba girls play a game outside their home in Okapembambu village in northwestern Namibia.
    NAM_090308_492_xw.jpg
  • Traditionally dressed Himba women sit around a fire at their home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, they cover themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_001_xw.jpg
  • A flooded river during the rainy season near Opuwo, in northwestern Namibia. The flash flood resulted from a thunderstorm in the mountains.
    NAM_090307_161_xw.jpg
  • A security officer takes an afternoon nap at the front desk of the Ministry of Finance in Windhoek, Namibia.
    NAM_090304_001_xw.jpg
  • Uahoo Uahoo, a warden at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, stands in the back of his truck with his typical day's worth of food and observes a herd of springbok. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090310_430_xxw.jpg
  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio co-authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interview Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The young woman is the mother of three children and bore her first child at age 14.  The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_466_xw.jpg
  • A section of the Katutura suburb in Windhoek, Namibia, near the rented house of Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds.
    NAM_090313_321_xw.jpg
  • A lioness watches over its cubs as it crosses a dirt road near the Okaukuejo restcamp at Etosha National Park game reserve, northern Namibia.
    NAM_090310_164_xw.jpg
  • A mopane worm in a tree outside the hut of Himba tribespeople in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. Mopane worms are also a delicacy during the rainy season.
    NAM_090308_672_xw.jpg
  • Young boys eat out of an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) in Okapembambu, a village of the Himba tribespeople  in northwestern Namibia during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
    NAM_090308_644_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia , sits inside her home with her child. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    NAM_090308_636_xw.jpg
  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_560_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua (far left), a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside her hut with members of her family in the Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend. The photograph was made in Okapembambu village, where she was raised. She is here with her youngest child helping with the corn harvest to bring back corn for her husband and children.
    NAM_090308_483_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, cooks at her home in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_238_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman, uses a penknife to fix the hair of another Himba woman in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    NAM_090308_231_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua (left), a Himba tribeswoman, fixes her friend's hair while her child plays outside their house in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_224_xw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman feeds children outside her home in Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. Mopane worms are also a delicacy during the  rainy season.
    NAM_090308_216_xw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman feeds children outside her home in Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. Mopane worms are also a delicacy during the rainy season.
    NAM_090308_215_xw.jpg
  • A Himba woman breastfeeds a child while sitting outside her home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
    NAM_090308_212_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia (with green pendant dangling from her headband). MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_205_xw.jpg
  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_024_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia, stands next to a corral where she and other Himba women milk cows every morning. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_013_xw.jpg
  • Himba tribespeople in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
    NAM_090308_008_xw.jpg
  • Tourists and Namibians of various tribes, including traditionally dressed Himba women, mingle outside Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.
    NAM_090307_208_xw.jpg
  • Tourists and Namibians of various tribes, including traditionally dressed Himba women, mingle outside Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.
    NAM_090307_197_xw.jpg
  • Namibians of various tribes, including traditionally dressed Himba women (left), mingle at Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.
    NAM_090307_187_xw.jpg
  • A flooded river during the rainy season near Opuwo, in northwestern Namibia. The flash flood resulted from a thunderstorm in the mountains.
    NAM_090307_162_xw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with her child outside a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
    NAM_090307_140_xw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
    NAM_090307_106_xw.jpg
  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shopping with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend..
    NAM_090307_076_xw.jpg
  • During chilly mornings and evenings in northern Namibia's rainy season, the women of Okapembambu village draw steaming buckets of milk from their cows, despite the distraction of ankle-deep mud and manure. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Milk and its by-products are the Himba's most important source of nutrition. The women add a bit of soured milk to the fresh liquid to hasten the process of natural fermentation, and they shake calabash gourds for hours to make butter. They drink some of the soured milk, use some to make their cornmeal porridge, and mix butterfat with ochre to make their body cream.
    NAM_090308_603_xxw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua carries a bucket of milk at her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_805_xw.jpg
  • A Himba chief stands with his two wives outside his home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March.  The Himba culture is polygamous. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, they covers themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_617_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_434_xw.jpg
  • A Himba tribeswoman fixes her hair outside her home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_422_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia, sits in her hut with her son. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_172_xw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with a child speaks to three men  outside a grocery store in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
    NAM_090307_139_xw.jpg
  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
    NAM_090307_030_xw.jpg
  • Chunks of meat hung out to dry on hooks in the northwestern town of Opuwo, Namibia.
    NAM_090307_014_xw.jpg
  • Namibians gather for their favorite snack, kapana (strips of freshly butchered beef) at the busy Oshetu Market near the Katutura area of Windhoek, Namibia. Vendors grill the popular snack over wood fires and serve it up by the handful in a piece of newspaper for about $0.50 (USD).
    NAM_090318_071_xw.jpg
  • A herd of oryx antelope near the Halali restcamp at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia.
    NAM_090311_018_xw.jpg
  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
    NAM_090307_045_xxw.jpg
  • Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. (from Wikipedia)
    NAM_090313_233.jpg
  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
    NAM_090307_245_2_xxw.jpg
  • Giraffes and a zebra forage near the Halali restcamp at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia.
    NAM_090314_147_xw.jpg
  • Tourists stop for a lion to cross the road near Okaukuejo restcamp at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia.
    NAM_090310_108_xw.jpg
  • A flood-lit waterhole near the Halali restcamp at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia. Strategically located halfway between Okaukuejo and Namutoni, Halali is situated at the base of a dolomite hill, amongst shady Mopane trees.  A flood-lit waterhole which is viewed from an elevated vantage point provides wildlife viewing throughout the day and into the night.
    NAM_090310_02_xw.jpg
  • A Himba boy finishes cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
    NAM_090308_666_xxw.jpg
  • A haulage truck on the trans-Kalahari highway near the Botswana border in Namibia. With no comprehensive railway networks to move cargo between countries in southern Africa, haulage trucks serve as the primary means of transport for the bulk of regional trade.
    NAM_090316_308_xw.jpg
  • Springbok forage in the expansive plains of Etosha National Park in northern Namibia with a rainbow in the distance from an afternoon rain.
    NAM_090309_025_xw.jpg
  • Namibians of various ethnicities mingle at Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia on a weekday afternoon. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Alcohol flows freely for those who can afford it, while those who can't try to solicit passersby for money, tobacco, and beer.
    NAM_090307_204_xxw.jpg
  • Tersius "Teri" Bezuidenhout, a long-haul trucker delayed by paperwork at the Botswana-Namibia border stands next to his truck with his typical day's worth of road food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090316_253_xxw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside the house at her father's village with her youngest son and her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Model Released.
    NAM_090308_261_xxw.jpg
  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, in the kitchen of her rented house after a busy day at the factory. (Mestilde Shigwedha was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090305_091_xw.jpg
  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, in her bedroom after a work day at the factory. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090305_160_xw.jpg
  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, shops for groceries at a supermarket near her home.  (Mestilde Shigwedha is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090305_119_xw.jpg
  • In the tall grass of Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, at the edge of a salt pan, a normally dry lakebed bigger than Rhode Island, a male lion looks for something to kill and eat. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    NAM_090311_031_xxw.jpg
  • A security guard checks diamond polisher Mestilde Shigwedha's grocery items against her receipt at a supermarket in Windhoek, Namibia. Guards check the groceries of all shoppers to prevent shoplifting.
    NAM_090305_128_xw.jpg
  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, in her bedroom after a hard day at the factory. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090305_078_xxw.jpg
  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia as her father's third wife, Mukoohirumbu, cleans her baby's face. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After filling up their containers they will flip their headdresses back and carry the jugs of water home on their heads.
    NAM_090308_438_xxw.jpg
  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    NAM_090307_103_xxw.jpg
  • Flies feasting on kapana (strips of freshly butchered beef) don't seem to bother customers at the busy Oshetu Market near the Katutura area of Windhoek, Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    NAM_090318_107_xxw.jpg
  • Diamond polisher Mestilde's Shigwedha's netball team (outside the court on left) waits their turn to play in a city tournament in Windhoek, Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The team is sponsored by Mesti's employer, NamCot Diamonds, which is part of the Steinmetz Group.
    NAM_090314_005_xxw.jpg
  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets films game ranger Uahoo Uahoo at Etosha National Park in north-western Namibia. MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090310_485_xw.jpg
  • Hungry Lion fastfood shop in downtown Windhoek, Namibia, does a brisk business selling burgers, fries, and chicken. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    NAM_090304_003_xxw.jpg
  • Environs. Flowering "Desert Rose" bush/tree in a dry steam bed area of the Sahel in Eastern Chad, near the Breidjing Refugee Camp. The Adenium or "Desert Rose" is an extraordinary tropical plant. Coming essentially from East Africa, where it is found under different "subspecies" in countries like Sudan, Yemen, Socotra , Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
    CHA04_8432_xf1brw.jpg

Peter Menzel Photography

  • Home
  • Legal & Copyright
  • About Us
  • Image Archive
  • Search the Archive
  • Exhibit List
  • Lecture List
  • Agencies
  • Contact Us: Licensing & Inquiries