For this exhibition, my first on Oxfordshire Art Weeks, I am showing photographs made on a journey from Tigray in the north Ethiopia to the Omo region in the far south. Since visiting this fascinating and beautiful country the pandemic has curtailed travel, and much needed tourism, and, as serious, civil war has wracked the country. Many of the photographs selected from my extensive archive are portraits made with the permission and cooperation of the warm and welcoming people we met on our journey. It is sad to think that, for many of them, facing the twin challenges of the pandemic and the war, life will be even more harsh.