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Jimmy Nelson Photographer

Jimmy Nelson Photographer's Collections

Jimmy Nelson Photographer

Before They Pass Away

Jimmy Nelson Photographer

Homage to Humanity

Jimmy Nelson Photographer's Artwork

XXVI French Polynesia

XXVI French Polynesia

XXXI 67, XXXII Himba, Angola

XXXI 67, XXXII Himba, Angola

XXXIII 27, XXXIII PNG Coastal

XXXIII 27, XXXIII PNG Coastal

XXXI 77 // XXXII Himba, Angola

XXXI 77 // XXXII Himba, Angola

XXXI 67 // Himba, Angola

XXXI 67 // Himba, Angola

XIX Tibet / XIX 331

XIX Tibet / XIX 331

VII 274 // VII Ladakh, India

VII 274 // VII Ladakh, India

XIX Tibet / XIX 326

XIX Tibet / XIX 326

XXV 15 // XXV South Sudan

XXV 15 // XXV South Sudan

XIV 375A // XIV Ethiopia

XIV 375A // XIV Ethiopia

IX 125 // IX Maori, New Zealand

IX 125 // IX Maori, New Zealand

XVII 920 // XVII Samburu, Kenya

XVII 920 // XVII Samburu, Kenya

XVII 910 // XVII Samburu, Kenya

XVII 910 // XVII Samburu, Kenya

XXXVII 85, XXXVII 2 Mexico

XXXVII 85, XXXVII 2 Mexico

XXXVII 47, XXXVII 2 Mexico

XXXVII 47, XXXVII 2 Mexico

XXXV 3, XXXV PNG Lowlands

XXXV 3, XXXV PNG Lowlands

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Jimmy Nelson Photographer's Bio

Dutch-English artist Jimmy Nelson (Sevenoaks, 1967) has worked for the last thirty years as a photographer and is the initiator of the Jimmy Nelson Foundation. At the age of 16, he was accidentally prescribed the wrong medication and suffered from Alopecia totalis, which is total hair loss. At the Jesuit boarding school, he attended his subsequent baldness was mistaken as a sign of awkward rebellion and thus he felt socially isolated. As a result Jimmy unconsciously initiated his quest to find a place where he felt comfortable in the world. At the age of 18, his choice was Tibet, where according to his own naive and romantic research, all young men were bald and where he felt he could find empathy. This was the catalyst for his unending search for human connection.

With this inevitable search for self, he discovered the world’s most eclectic variety of peoples with their own cultures, aesthetics and languages. He decided to visually dignify the people he met on his way. His work is characterized by its romantic, iconic, and celebratory style, which has been initially bundled in his first book Before They Pass Away of which over 200.000 copies were sold. This success, also caused by an element of controversy, was the catalyst for his lifelong mission; to pay homage to indigenous cultures as a message for greater humanity.

In January 2016 he started traveling with the wish to create a body of work in which the observer gets taken on the journey. By gathering interviews, stories, film and 360 material next to his visual documentation, the start of an immersive experience was born. In September 2018 Homage to Humanity was launched, accompanied by a Webby Award-winning app, which allows the reader to unlock digital layers of the book. By scanning the images, film material will be revealed whereby Jimmy takes the viewer on a personal journey of human connection and the importance thereof. All of the chapters feature a 360 film, giving the reader a fully immersive experience behind the scenes, by using the cardboard glasses included with the book.

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