[Photo by Jun Cheng/provided to China Daily] |
"She should get married according to tradition. Many things in East Africa have long remained unchanged."
He has photographed Ethiopian tribes whose lifestyles have changed little over millennia.
But change is drastic when it arrives.
For instance, the local economy around the banks of the country's Dallol salt lake has long depended on camel caravans transporting manually harvested salt in the desert.
Jun Cheng believes he may have photographed the last days of this two-millennia-old tradition during his return visit in February.