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Candace Scharsu Photography -  Pygmies - Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic  
Candace Scharsu Photography -  Pygmies - Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic
  Candace Scharsu Photography -  Pygmies - Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic
Filed teeth for beautification
   
Congo Rainforest
 
Candace Scharsu Photography -  Pygmies - Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic
 
Aka Pygmy
Candace Scharsu Photography -  Pygmies - Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic
 

For thousands of years, the rain forest has been home to the Pygmies, but logging enterprises are displacing them. What was a rich, dignified and peaceful life, at one with the forest, has become one of abject poverty.

- - Candace Scharsu

Candace Scharsu Photography -  Pygmies - Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic
  Candace Scharsu Photography -  Pygmies - Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic
Baka Pygmies
Loggers hostile to photography
Mongulu, Pygmy house
Images from Cameroon, Republic of Congo and Central African Republic
 

Concerned Photo Essays:      Bushmeat  2014     Sudan: Mundari Wrestlers 2012      Independence South Sudan 2011      Lord Kony in Eastern Congo 2008

Lord Kony  in Northern Uganda      Blood Diamond War      Burma, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Cholera Epidemic in Guinea  2007      Haiti      Karamojong Warriors      Leprosy in Zambia      Malaria      Midwives in Africa 2008

Pygmies of Central Africa      Republic of Congo      Tibet, Vietnam, India      The Tuaregs of Niger

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