Portraits from another World is from Ethiopia Omo Valley. This magical place is know as the "Cradle of Mankind" home of the oldest hominid fossil. AL-288-1 or "Lucy". 3.5 million years after her, I went to photograph and visit her descendants. Simply put "Stunning" is a word that I don't use often. In this particular case, my trip to visit Ethiopia's Omo Valley was not only esthetically stunning, but strange, otherworldly and almost ancestral.