Before They Pass Away- Jimmy Nelson in Berlin


Jimmy Nelson's evocative and intriguing images of the worlds last indigenous communities is on exhibition simultaneously at Camera Works and CWC Gallery Berlin, an honor never before awarded to any artist by Camera Works.

© Jimmy Nelson


In many respects, the term unique describes the people portrayed by Jimmy Nelson best: So inimitably fascinating are the Huli Wigmen – painted in red, yellow and white – in Papua New Guinea, so exotic are the Karo in Ethiopia and so affecting are the Himba tribe in Namibia. Representatives of the world’s last indigenous peoples are the protagonists in Nelson’s photographs. His works go far beyond serving solely as a neutral visual document, serving the public’s vague idea about the existence of those tribesmen and peoples. With his epochal series, Jimmy Nelson establishes an awareness for the fascinating variety of the culture- and history charged symbols of the people, reflecting their rites, customs and traditions, that hitherto has not existed to this extend. Among several other countries his journeys led Nelson to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya, to China and Nepal or Siberia and Mongolia. The cultural prosperity of the indigenous populations of those countries differentiates itself even further within each single tribe in a new and different way.
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© Jimmy Nelson

© Jimmy Nelson

© Jimmy Nelson



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