Simferopol residents met the semi-wild tribes of Africa and Oceania... without leaving the city

Today, July 17, 2024, the grand opening of the photo exhibition of the Crimean traveler Viktor Pinchuk “Ethnic features of the world people” took place, dedicated to the annual professional holiday — Ethnographer’s Day.

Visitors to the event saw places on the globe almost untouched by civilization, where the creator of the photo collection, thanks to perseverance and perseverance in achieving his goals, was able to reach alone, using passing transport.

The village of Bunlap on the island of Pentecost, which belongs to Vanuatu, the Karamoja region in Uganda, difficult to access due to lack of roads, the south-eastern coast of Lake Turkana, where the community of four tribes “MOSARETU” lives — this is not a complete list of places displayed by the creator of the exhibition. The material was collected over the past twenty years while traveling the routes of long-term (up to six months) expeditions, including countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America.

A successor of ideas, a follower of the great Russian scientist-traveler N. N. Miklouho-Maclay (in honor of whose birth date the above holiday was introduced), our contemporary is one of the few who, sacrificing their comfort, makes a feasible contribution to ethnography, exploring godforsaken corners planets.