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The nude model who caused a worldwide stir after a secret photoshoot inside one of Egypt's most ancient temples landed her in jail has now appeared naked among one of Africa's most colourful ethnic tribes. Belgian nude model Marisa Papen, who describes herself as a “free-spirited and wildhearted expressionist”, became the centre of a worldwide controversy when she ended up in prison after a spectacular photoshoot in the vast temple complex of Karnak near the Egyptian city of Luxor. Now Papen shares another epic story of her African trip with Australian photographer Jesse Walker as she walked naked among the members of an isolated Ethiopian tribe and tells some remarkable stories about how beauty and nudity is seen by them. Papen said: “They have their own customs and believes, their own beauty-standards, their own religion, living life in harmony with nature and the spirit world. You may say, they are totally different then we are. But to me they are, what we once were. In touch with nature, a part of nature, immensely grateful and respectful towards it”. Papen travelled with Walker to the isolated Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia, where she lived for a week with the Surma tribe. Here: Marisa Papen among members of the Surma tribe in Ethiopia. (Photo by Jesse Walker/Marisa Papen/CEN)
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