Moises Saman, on assignment for Die Zeit magazine, journeyed to meet the indigenous Nuba peoples of Sudan, who have been notably photographed through the lens of Leni Riefenstahl in the 1970s. Riefenstahl, a German director and photographer known for producing Nazi propaganda, was largely influenced by Magnum photographer George Rodger's iconic imagery of Nuba wrestlers in the early 1950s. Whether consciously or unconsciously, the photographs portray the Nuba people with Western stereotypes of exoticism, depicting them through a lens tinted with a romanticized vision of the "other."

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