I’ve been reading Life and National Geographic since I was a kid, and I remember being transfixed by photos of the Maasai from the first time I saw them in a magazine. I used to be a professional photographer, and my specific love is portrait/fashion photography. So, when we had a chance to visit a Maasai village, I was so frigging excited. I also have complicated feelings about the voyeuristic implications of a colonial power invading another culture’s space and making them perform for our education, but I can’t deny that it was a childhood dream come true.
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