Jimmy Nelson
Overview
Jimmy Nelson (UK, 1967) started working as a photographer in 1987. In 2010 he began his journey to create Before They Pass Away. After visiting 35 chosen Indigenous communities, part one was published to international acclaim at the beginning of 2014. Today Jimmy is still travelling and photographing to produce part two of the project. His communication and his passion are found on a far wider platform.
He is exhibiting at international museums, shows his work at the world’s leading photographic art galleries, speaking at international conferences and is at the moment setting up the Jimmy Nelson Foundation. What drives him is not compassion for poverty or illness, but passion for décor and embellishment. Painted bodies are mirrors of pure souls. Tattooed faces are messages in flesh, worn as a second skin. Above all else, it is his fascination for the rapidly vanishing harmony between man and nature takes us to places we thought had disappeared long ago.
XLI 17, Bardi, Cape Leveque, Dampier Peninsula, The Kimberley, Australia, 2018
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XI 262, Hilao Moyizo Village, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2011
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XVII 220, Lelesas, Louelen, Lewangu, Lepokodou, Loingu, Nyerere, Ndoto Mountain Range, Kenya, 2010
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XXXXVII 47, Tehuanas, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2017
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Baskakhkhan, Ulaank hus, Bayan Oglii, Mongolia, 2011
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VIII 452A, Maasai, Tarangire, Rift Escarpment, Tanzania, 2010
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XXXIX 2, Pavel & Jello Khudi, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Siberia, 2018
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Tumbu, Hangu, Peter, Hapiya, Kati, Hengene & Steven, Huli Wigmen, Ambua Falls, Tari Valley Papua New Guinea, 2010
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Tonkei, Serengeti, Tanzania, 2010Tonkei, Serengeti, Tanzania, 2010
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XXI 308, Ni Vanuatu Men, Rah Lava Island, Torba Province, Vanuatu, 2011
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XXIX 2, Sonam, Gantey, Bhutan, 2016
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XXV 4, Mundari kids, Mayong, South Sudan, Africa, 2016
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I 106, Eduard Taeragtin, Second Brigade, Chukotka – Siberia, Russia, 2012
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XXVI 15, Hakahau, Ua Pou, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, 2016
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XXXIII 31, Korafe, Amuioan, Tufi, Oro province, Papua New Guinea, 2017
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VIII 461, Maasai, Manyara Village, Rift Escarpment, Tanzania, 2010
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XL 26, Q’ero, Ausangate mountain range, Andes, Peru, 2018
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Barga & Hammarech, Banna Tribe, Bori Village, Southern Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2011
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VII 270, Lekir Monastery, India, 2012
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XXII 5, Longhorn Miao, SuoJia, Miao Village, Liupanshui, Guizhou, China, 2016
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XXIV 1, Cave, Sadhus, Haridwar, India, 2016
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XV 73, Menaja Koke, Ponowi Village, Jalibu Mountains, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, 2010
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XXVIII 1, Gerewol Festival, Bossiio, Chad, 2016
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