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Jimmy Nelson: Before They Pass Away - 2

November 22, 2013 Linda Hardwick
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Jimmy Nelson has traveled to some of the most remote places in the world to document what is increasingly rare - distinct traditional cultures - places where people have lived the same way for millennia - generation to generation, unchanged.

Nelson writes, ‘’In 2009, I planned to become a guest of 31 secluded and visually unique tribes. I wanted to witness their time-honoured traditions, join in their rituals and discover how the rest of the world is threatening to change their way of life forever. Most importantly, I wanted to create an ambitious aesthetic photographic document that would stand the test of time. A body of work that would be an irreplaceable ethnographic record of a fast disappearing world."

 

 
 

 

Ethiopia: the Karo.

 

"Shooting in Ethiopia was not easy … with credos like ‘It’s better to die than to live without killing’ and ‘A close friend can become a close enemy’.

 
 
 

 

China: The tibetans.

 

 
 
 

 

Ethiopia:  The Mursi

 

"In hindsight their fierce warrior spirit made for some of the most powerful photographs in the book, but on location things weren’t always comfortable."

 
 

"Mursi women are known all over the world for wearing clay plates in their lower lips… It is said that the lip plates were invented to make Mursi women less attractive to slave traders. In the tribe today, the bigger the lip plate, the more cattle the girl is worth by the time she is traded into marriage."

 

 

Ethiopia: The arbore.

 


 

papua new guinea: The Asaro

 

Legend has it that the Mudmen were forced to flee from an enemy into the Asaro River where they waited until dusk to escape. The enemy saw them rise from the banks covered in mud and thought they were spirits. The Asaro still apply mud and masks to keep the illusion alive and terrify other tribes.

 

 

 

Argentina: The Gauchos.

 

"Every four years, the few remaining Gaucho families come together in the Pampas and essentially have a weekend-long picnic... There’s tango music playing and there are barbeques everywhere. "

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

papua new guinea: The Huli

 

 
 
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Click here to return to part 1 of Jimmy Nelson's, "Before They Pass Away".

 

Links:

Photo © Jimmy Nelson Pictures BV, www.beforethey.com

© Before They Pass Away by Jimmy Nelson, published by teNeues, $ 150, also available as Collector's Edition XXL, www.teneues.com.

Buy book here {direct link}

Downloading of images is strictly forbidden.

 

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