Jean-Michel Voge

Painted Faces, Color Photography of Surma Women, Africa, Signed, 2/5 Edition

1996

On handmade Japanese Awagami paper, Two Sisters from a series on the Nomadic Surma tribe in Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa is by JM Voge. An editioned work,...

Little Surma Boy, 1996 by Jean-Michel (JM) Voge, is a contemporary color photograph of a child from the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa. The photograph is printe...

The subject wears a tribal mouthpiece lip plate and carries a rooster in her arms. Rooster, 1996 by Jean-Michel Voge, is a contemporary color photograph of a villager, a female nomad...

Dandy, 1996 by Jean-Michel Voge is a photographic portrait of a colorfully painted boy with a feathered headdress from the Surma Tribe in Ethiopia, Africa. The photograph is printed by the artist on handmade Awagami Japanese paper. Signed on verso (back of photograph), In an edition of 5. Available: 2/5. Provenance: JM Voge Archive *** Artist's Bio: Jean-Michel (JM) Voge (b. 1949) is a fine art photographer, formerly editorial freelancer for magazines, such as Madame Figaro (1982-2010), Le Figaro Magazine, Point of View, Marie France, Town and Country, European Travel and LIFE, Fortune Magazine, and AD Spain. The French photographer published a critically-acclaimed monograph on portraits of Europeans, "Figures of Europe," which include portraits of influential Europeans through 1990. Among JM's personal projects, he photographed the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley...

"Untitled 37" Wearing face paint is typical in the Karo tribe. While the designs are based on tradition, each young man is encouraged to create their own motif. This award-winnin...

"Untitled 37" Wearing face paint is typical in the Karo tribe. While the designs are based on tradition, each young man is encouraged to create their own motif. This award-winnin...

"Untitled 37" Wearing face paint is typical in the Karo tribe. While the designs are based on tradition, each young man is encouraged to create their own motif. This award-winnin...

I met this young married Samburu in the middle of a busy market in western Kenya. She was with a group of young women browsing the wooden stalls dotted across the dusty red earth in the lowlands of the Matthew’s Range. In Samburu communities young men spend years as warriors – a wandering lifestyle which make it impossible for them to marry. Instead they take girlfriends and give them beads and necklaces to indicate their relationship. Samburu girls adore receiving these presents and adorn themselves in more and more necklaces. The girl in this picture, although now married to an elder, still shows her beads from the time of being promised to a warrior: they are the band of 8 or so thin necklaces...