PYGMIES
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.
Baka Pygmies
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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. |
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Baka Pygmies |
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| Loggers hostile to photography. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mongulu, Pygmy house | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Images from Cameroon, Republic of Congo and Central African Republic | ||||||||||||||||||||
| All images copyright©Candace Scharsu 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||