Stunning Portraits Of The World’s Remotest Tribes

[Isserley]

Living in a concrete box with hot water pouring from the tap, a refrigerator cooling our food and wi-fi connecting us to the rest of the world, we can barely imagine a day in a life of, say, Tsaatan people. They move 5 to 10 times per year, building huts when the temperature is -40 and herding reindeer for transportation, clothing and food. “Before They Pass Away,” a long-term project by photographer Jimmy Nelson, gives us the unique opportunity to discover more than 30 secluded and slowly vanishing tribes from all over the world.

Spending 2 weeks in each tribe, Jimmy became acquainted with their time-honoured traditions, joined their rituals and captured it all in a very appealing way. His detailed photographs showcase unique jewellery, hairstyles and clothing, not to forget the surroundings and cultural elements most important to each tribe, like horses for Gauchos. According to Nelson, his mission was to assure that the world never forgets how things used to be: “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.”

All of his snapshots now lie in a massive book and will be extended by a film (you can see a short introduction video below). So embark on a journey to the most remote corners and meet the witnesses of a disappearing world. Would you give up your smartphone, internet and TV to live free like them?

Kazakh, Mongolia

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Himba, Namibia

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Goroka, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

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Chukchi, Russia

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[UpToLight]

Stunning! Thanks for posting!

[AlaBil]

Stunning in an understatement! I too thank you for posting these

[Frederick Jackson]

Thanks so much great pictures! I have been thinking for some time that it will be just these indigenous peoples who will be here long after we the denizens of a "civilized" world have perished. :cool:

[Cidersomerset]

The Noble Savage , was a Victorian term to describe native tribesmen ecountered
in the days of of empire. It strikes me from time to time, and your post has
reminded me . Is time travel possible ? Yes if there is no such thing as time just
one gigantic now spreading into infinity but drawing back on itselfe in an infinity
loop. Ion explained it to Bob Dobbs as a wire wisk that also spills into a mirriad of
parallel worlds....

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Yeah I sort of get it as well...LOL...I'll do a thread on it when I can explain it better...

Anyway why did I bring this up you may ask ? Because in a sense time travel is here
there are still a few stone age tribes in the romote corners of the world, and even
in the industrial and known areas the difference in equality is a sort of time zonal.
Though with the satalite and cell phone this is getting smaller each year.

Stone age amazon tribe

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7427417.stm

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[gnostic9]

Living in a concrete box with hot water pouring from the tap, a refrigerator cooling our food and wi-fi connecting us to the rest of the world, we can barely imagine a day in a life of, say, Tsaatan people. They move 5 to 10 times per year, building huts when the temperature is -40 and herding reindeer for transportation, clothing and food. “Before They Pass Away,” a long-term project by photographer Jimmy Nelson, gives us the unique opportunity to discover more than 30 secluded and slowly vanishing tribes from all over the world.

Spending 2 weeks in each tribe, Jimmy became acquainted with their time-honoured traditions, joined their rituals and captured it all in a very appealing way. His detailed photographs showcase unique jewellery, hairstyles and clothing, not to forget the surroundings and cultural elements most important to each tribe, like horses for Gauchos. According to Nelson, his mission was to assure that the world never forgets how things used to be: “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.”

All of his snapshots now lie in a massive book and will be extended by a film (you can see a short introduction video below). So embark on a journey to the most remote corners and meet the witnesses of a disappearing world. Would you give up your smartphone, internet and TV to live free like them?

Kazakh, Mongolia

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Himba, Namibia

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Goroka, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

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Chukchi, Russia

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http://www.boredpanda.org/vanishing-tribes-before-they-pass-away-jimmy-nelsonHi Isserley. thank you for the post! Are we not even ashamed that we photograph and exihibit people that we have decided to exclude from our so called reality? Do we really believe/as opposed to intuit that science is true. ~Have you ever walked without shoes. loved without flesh, smiled without seeing, touched without knowing, it's all part of being!

[genevieve]

Isserley--

Thanks SO much!


Peace Love Joy & Harmony,
genevieve

[Hazel]

Take off your rubber soled shoes and Wade into Davis...

In case anyone hasn't come across the excitingly experiential work and uniquely unauthorative voice of anthropologist Wade Davis.. do seek out his books /he can be found on Ted Talks also..

He is a charismatic man of fluid consciousness, imagination and direct eloquence who cronicals' the dying tribes and languages of the indigenous peoples of the Earth in a contagiously engaging and tangible way..

Most profoundly he shows us that we are in origins, from a different reality... and in an indelible perspective.. how much in our 'civilization' we have become diluted.

Nothing esoteric or New Age in these understandings about who we are:
Clear hitting toward the center of our otherwise glazed over knowledge... :cool2:

Go seek him and be amazed :boom:.


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