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I photographed the dipo ceremony of the Krobo people.
Africa many cultures celebrate the passage of a child towards adulthood. Among the hills Krobo of Ghana, young girls carry on an ancient tradition. Every year, girls undergo a transition to adulthood.
In the beginning of the Dipo each woman Enters a house where they shed Their clothing representative of Their childhood and put on a new, mature set of clothing by Their ritual mother. Then, they shave Their Heads and wash in the river Which is meant to cleanse the body and spirit in preparation for womanhood.
During this ceremony they dance to music to celebrate Their passage into wmoanhood, Represent and their Families by wearing handmade beads passed sown for generations, but most imnportantly to impress a suitor and the tribe’s chief With Their new found grace and beauty. 
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anthony pappone (1979), is a photographer specialized in photo travel, festival, portrait, reportage, rural, tribes and ceremony around in the world.
“as a child I have always been passionate about history and far away places and tribes with an ancient culture”
before be a photographer, I was a traveler who loved to turn and look but then struck by ladakh festival and the photos that I could do during these celebrations I started to follow the festivals and ceremonies around the world.
I have focused by some years on Africa, the continent that was able to maintain alive the traditions and the ceremonies, from deserts to forests.
I started studying photography and photographers and I started to to buy the testing of various camera bodies and lenses all brand canon, at present working my photo projects with very bright lenses, my favorite lens is the wide angle.
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