Barter of the Future

When Tradition Meets the Bulldozer

This gallery is a brief selection from a much larger body of work. The remaining images and full narrative are reserved for my forthcoming book. For commissioning or licensing enquiries, please contact me directly.


Indigenous peoples from Ethiopia’s Omo Valley to Namibia’s Kalahari and the Amazon’s Yaguar once lived in seamless rhythm with their lands. Today their territories are sliced by fences, monocrops, missionary outposts and corporate titles—a fresh chapter of colonialism lubricated by global capitalism and evangelism. Body markings, rites of passage and centuries‑old ecological knowledge face erasure; those who resist are labelled “primitive”, those who comply receive processed food and imported faith, trading autonomy for diabetes and dependency. Reservations become open‑air museums, cultural identity rebranded as sin. My work documents this tension—not to romanticise but to witness and archive what breathes before it is paved. Culture can evolve; it must never be bulldozed.