Yakel Village Elders and Happiness

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The shot is of some Yakel village elders sitting under a Banyan tree in a Nambas village on Tanna island, Vanuatu. The Yakel people live a traditional life that in many ways has remained unchanged over the millennia. The people of Vanuatu often rank as some of the happiest on the planet (4th happiest globally in the 2016 Happy Planet Index) . Ranked with a higher wellbeing than those living in Japan, they achieve this with an Ecological Footprint per capita a quarter of the size of Japan’s, and a GDP per capita that’s more than twenty times smaller than neighboring Australia. Some food for thought for those of us living in highly developed societies.

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I am posting this shot up for the @photofeed people contest. You can check it out (and vote for it (or whatever else catches your eye) here.

If you would like to learn a little bit more about my background in photography you can read the interview @photofeed did with me here.

Robert Downie
Love Life, Love Photography

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Cool shot and definitely something to think about in regards to possessions and happiness

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