India, Rabari (Until they disappeared)

Rabari live in Gujarat and Rajasthan. For a long time they were nomadic, but today they have their own settlements. In order not to violate the traditions and foundations, representatives of Rabari marry mainly with members of their tribe. Rabari has its own style of traditional clothes, which is characteristic only for them, which is far from festive, but quite casual. Indians can easily distinguish the representatives of the Rabari tribe by their tattoos, special brass earrings, and various magical and religious symbols that cover their neck, chest, arms, and other parts of the body. The unique nationality, which, like many others, eventually becomes smaller and smaller in number, as the new generation wants to try itself in the “big” world, leaves its villages and turns into ordinary urban dwellers

ph: Jimmy Nelson