Aka Pygmies
Arts and Entertainment, third prize stories
N-Dole plays a flute. Aka pygmies create musical instruments out of their environment. String instruments, flutes and drums are made from tree branches and vines in the dense jungle where musicians gather to play.
Commissioned by:Â Stern
Photo Credit: Herald Schmitt
Harald Schmitt,  born 2nd March 1948 in Mayen in the Eifel region of Germany. Schmitt grew up in Trier and that's where he completed his photographic training whilst working at the newspaper, Trierischen Landeszeitung.
In his early years he journeyed with politicians to Asia, the Middle East and the U.S.A; The Vietnam war, Cambodia, Rhodesia, Southwest Africa and to Idi Amin in Uganda. Photos of Alexander Solschenizyn’s expulsion from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2017