Category: Jimmy Nelson

7 life lessons learned from photographing tribal and indigenous people throughout the world

John Aldred

Photography teaches us some very valuable lessons. Some of those lessons are common to all of us. Like, remembering to check your camera battery isn’t flat before you leave the house. Other lessons are somewhat more unique, and profound. British photographer Jimmy Nelson has spent the past 31 years travelling the world. He photographs tribal and indigenous […]

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Bob On The Rock And When Inspiration May Seem Like Copy

Mitchell Kanashkevich

[note from the editor: being inspired is often an illusive process, I mean, it was all said and done and all we do now is remix, right? This is especially true in the realm creative arts. What differentiate “heavily inspired” from “blatantly copied”? How much of an image is the idea, and how much of […]

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Photographing Tribesman On The Crater Rim Of An Active Volcano

Tiffany Mueller

Jimmy Nelson is no stranger to photographing vanishing tribes from around the globe. In fact, he recently delivered a great TED talk about his numerous adventures as a photographer. But, before he visited the TED studios, Nelson spent some time on the Oceanic islands of Vanuatu. During his time on the island chain, the photographer visited […]

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