Fishing and Firearms
With a gun resting across his shoulders, a man from the native Turkana community of northwestern Kenya heads towards the shores of Lake Turkana, on the border with Ethiopia.
The once plentiful waters of the vast lake are overfished and fierce clashes have broken out in the area, as the Turkana tussle with old rivals, the Ethiopian indigenous Dhaasanac, over dwindling resources.
Turkana fishermen sail into deeper waters on Lake Turkana, near the Kenyan-Ethiopian border.
Fishermen retrieve their fishing nets, which they left in the lake overnight.
A man rests in his boat during a fishing expedition.
A Turkana fisherman cleans his catch.
A man attempts to climb back up onto his boat after untangling a fishing net from floating weeds.
A Turkana man cleans freshly caught fish on the shores of the lake.
He washes the fish in the water.
A Turkana man and a boy carrying a gun look on as a G3 battle rifle hangs from a structure used to dry fish.
A boy walks under lengths of wood where fish hang to dry.
A Turkana man herds livestock back from grazing grounds at the end of the day in the disputed Ilemi Triangle, near the borders with Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Turkana fishermen prepare a meal at night on the shores of the lake.
A herd of livestock stands inside a cattle enclosure known as a kraal, as food is cooked on a fire.
Simon Choko, a community leader from a fishing camp near the shores of Lake Turkana, shows a bullet wound which he says he sustained while repulsing an attack by Dhaasanac raiders.
Lightning flashes over livestock inside a Turkana cattle kraal.
A Turkana man stands at the entrance of a kraal at dawn.
A man at a Turkana fishing camp looks out towards Lake Turkana as he wakes up under a mosquito net.
A woman with traditional Turkana scarring sits in a kraal.
The skin of a large wild cat, which was shot after attacking several goats, hangs on a protective bank of branches, constructed to keep livestock safe.
A Turkana man walks past a row of guns at a fishing camp on the shores of Lake Turkana.
Kenyan soldiers from the Rapid Deployment Unit, an emergency unit in the area because of reoccurring clashes between the Turkana and Dhaasanac communities, look at the carcass of a cow that starved to death.
A Dhaasanac man from southern Ethiopia helps Kenyan soldiers from the Rapid Deployment Unit to lift a dying cow.
A soldier from Kenya's Rapid Deployment Unit looks at a starving cow, a few hundred meters from the official Kenyan-Ethiopian border.
