Xantae, a Bushman, a photo from Caprivi, North

Photographer's Note

Les Bushmen, ou Peuple San, sont les plus anciens habitants de l但frique australe o� ils vivent depuis au moins 20 000 ans.
Leur habitat est le vaste d駸ert du Kalahari et le Bushmanland.
Ce sont des cueilleurs chasseurs se d駱la軋nt en fonction des pluies pour se nourrir de fruits, de racines et de gibier.
La Namibie compte encore 27 000 Bushmen (ou Bochimans) qui repr駸entent 3% de la population totale, le Botswana ( 55 000 ) et l'Afrique du Sud ( 10 000 ).
Seuls quelques 2000 Bushmen conservent aujourd檀ui leur mode de vie ancestral, au sein du d駸ert du Kalahari, dans l弾st du pays. Ils ne poss鐡ent que ce qu段ls peuvent transporter, utilisent des pointes de fl鐵hes empoisonn馥s pour chasser, et transportent l弾au dans des 忖fs d誕utruche vides.

Pour en savoir plus regarder le film "Les dieux sont tomb駸 sur la t黎e"

The 'Bushmen' or San people are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, where they have lived for at least 20,000 years. Their home is in the vast expanse of the Kalahari desert. The Bushmen are the remnants of Africa's oldest cultural group, genetically the closest surviving people to the original Homo sapiens 田ore� from which the Negroid people of Africa emerged. Bushmen are small in stature generally with light yellowish skin, which wrinkles very early in life.
They are 27000 in Namibia, 55000 in Botswana and 10000 in South Africa
Only 20 000 have kept their ancestral way of life, as hunters-gatherers
They only own what they can carry along, using poisoned arrows for hunting and transporting water in empty ostrich eggs

To learn more about them just watch the old movie "Gods have gone crazy"

janjan1897, jjcordier, mozzy27, faubry, abmdsudi, marabu61, mjdundee, CLODO has marked this note useful

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timecapturer (49288) 2012-10-13 6:02

Hi Patrick
one of your special portraits! You excel at shots like this and this is a fine one to add to your collection. Superb detail, light expression and character that just shines through this man's wonderful smile. Perfect!

Enjoy the weekend - Brian.

corjan3 (2109) 2012-10-13 7:49

Hello Patrick,
Informative image and photo. The word "Bushman" is being frowned upon these days. Fact is that they occupied the whole of South Africa before they were driven out into the desert areas by the southward migration blacks and, later, also by the northward migrating whites. So to say that whites took the blacks' land is a lie. Most blacks in South Africa and Namibia are under the impression that they were here first and that the land belong to them. Not so! The San, and then also the Khoi, were the first occupiers of the whole of South Africa and Namibia ... and probably of the rest of Southern Africa.

By the way, the correct name of the film that you refer to is "The gods must be crazy". I know the producer but have not seen him for many years.

JFS (32459) 2012-10-13 8:08

Magnifique portrait plein de vie et joie. Ta note est tr鑚 int駻essante aussi. Merci Patrick!
Amicalement,
Juan

janjan1897 (2301) 2012-10-13 9:26

Bonsoir Patrick,
Un look comme 軋, 軋 ne se loupe pas ! Je ne sais pas ce que tu en penses, mais personnellement, je lui trouve des traits de ressemblance avec Barack Obama (un cousin 駘oign�, peut-黎re ?). En tout cas, tu as r饌lis� l� un beau portrait expressif de cet homme jovial avec un cadrage serr� qui fait bien ressortir les d騁ails de son visage. Ses yeux brillant de malice et son large sourire lui donnent un air bien sympathique. Tu dois avoir une sacr馥 complicit� avec tes mod鑞es.
Amiti駸
Jean

jjcordier (79299) 2012-10-13 22:31

Patrick
De l'Asie � l'Afrique, tu voyages plus vite que l'馗lair! Bon portrait de ce Bushman visiblement heureux de poser pour toi.
Amicalement
JJ

wolf38 (30) 2012-10-13 22:58

Hi Patrick. People and especially their portraits are the pinnacle of photography. The Bushman is a wonderful portrait study. The open and friendly face makes the man very syphatisch. Total outstanding.
Rgds, Wolfgang.

mozzy27 (2) 2012-10-14 1:52

Hello Patrick
A very fine detailed, natural and interesting portrait of the African bushman with such strong features. Very sharp, true to life and the black BG really enhances the image. TFS
Cheers Peter

jemaflor (148214) 2012-10-14 9:26

salut Patrick,
A portrait parfaitement r騏ssi, cadrage luminosit� et nettet� avec un bon fond flou, et de plus l'homme � un sourire tr鑚 spontan馥, tr鑚 bien fait.

faubry (35447) 2012-10-14 19:42

re bonjour Patrick, un tr鑚 bon portrait de cet homme rieur, content d'黎re pris en photos sans nul doute! j ai un livre sur les bushmen, population en voie de disparition?
amiti駸
Francine

abmdsudi (95869) 2012-10-15 5:01

Hi Patrick
Direct, warm smile, humorous and wise. It's a rare gift to get this degree of rapport with a stranger and you appear to have captured all the emotions. An excellent natural portrait, one of the amazing people in the Kalahari, and I cant help but smile when I look at it, remind me of the movie sometimes ago. What a happy face, a real character and a previlage to have witnessed. You've done a great job of taking his portrait. TFS
Kind regards

COSTANTINO (117756) 2012-10-15 11:13

Hello
typical portrait of this man with superb details
excellent lighting,friendly face,nice
expression,I liked it
regards
Costantino

marabu61 (11587) 2012-10-15 13:34

Bonsoir Patrick
Tr駸 belle portrait de cette homme San, si plain de joie et de vie avec un background noir et simple pour donne l'homage � cette peuple.
bonne soir馥
Daniel

mjdundee (4663) 2012-10-16 10:38

Salut Patrick,
Fascinating people. How easy life must be without more possesion than what you can cary. Would you keep your camera?
Thomas

CLODO (45118) 2012-10-19 1:05

salut Patrick

Barack Obama d馮uis�?
En tous cas, il est heureux d'黎re photographi�!
le ciel ne lui est pas tomb� sur la t黎e!
CLODO

fabbs99 (17179) 2012-10-24 19:43

Hi Patrick,

Its a lovely portrait full of finer details and colors.You have done a great job in shooting this lovely portrait.TFS.

Keep sharing and exchanging views
Farhat