Known as the Baka, or locally in Congo as Bayaka, people, the tribe lives in west and central Africa. Living in the dense rainforest has given the Baka people has made them adapt to climate's challenges, but half of children are dead by the age of five.
Photographer and freelance journalist, Susan Schulman, spent a few days with the tribe in February 2016. Schulman's interest in the pygmy tribe came about after hearing about Louis Sarno, who has spent the last 30 years living with the Baka people in the Central African Republic and serving as their doctor.