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05-07-13 13:44 Before They Pass Away - An FP Slideshow | Foreign Policy Page 1 of 7 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/24/before_they_pass_away?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full Friday, J uly 5, 2013 Follow Before They Pass Away One field camera, 44 countries, and a world fast disappearing. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIMMY NELSON | JULY/AUGUST 2013 HOME DIRECTORY CHANNELS BLOGS LATEST ARTICLES POSTS ABOUT FP GR OUP MAGAZINE AR CHIVE SEAR CH Search FP LOG OUT For two years, British photographer Jimmy Nelson lugged his 4x5 plate field camera to 44 countries around the globe -- from the canopied rain forests of Papua New Guinea to the snowdrifts of northern Mongolia to the searing Namibian desert -- documenting a world fast disappearing. The goal of this visual anthropology, published in Nelson's new book, Before They Pass Away, was to capture the lives of remote and endangered tribes. "I wanted to witness their time- honored traditions, join in their rituals, and discover how the rest of the world is threatening to change their way of life forever," Nelson says. For politically correct Westerners, there could be something uncomfortably colonial about this sort
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Before They Pass AwayOne field camera, 44 countries, and a world fast disappearing.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIMMY NELSON | JULY/AUGUST 2013
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For two years, British photographer Jimmy Nelson lugged his 4x5 plate field camera to 44 countries around the globe --from the canopied rain forests of Papua New Guinea to the snowdrifts of northern Mongolia to the searing Namibiandesert -- documenting a world fast disappearing. The goal of this visual anthropology, published in Nelson's new book,Before They Pass Away, was to capture the lives of remote and endangered tribes. "I wanted to witness their time-honored traditions, join in their rituals, and discover how the rest of the world is threatening to change their way of lifeforever," Nelson says. For politically correct Westerners, there could be something uncomfortably colonial about this sort
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of voyeuristic globe-trotting ethnography, yet Nelson's sensitivity for his subjects is immediately apparent. The tribes hecaptures might seem wild and somehow alien, but they show clear dominion over their remote and unforgivingenvironments, offering a remarkable glimpse back in time to how we urban dwellers once lived.
Goroka, Papua New Guinea
Ladakh, India
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Vanuatu, Vanuatu islands
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Masai, Tanzania
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Kazakh, Mongolia
Himba, Namibia
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Chukchi, Russia
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7 DAYS AGO
itaiaThe best known MAYA is also the greatest still living composer of romantic music of Latin America - with over 500 compositions - sung also by opera singerslike Placido Domingo and converted in to "hits" in English - sung by Sinatra and Presley. ARMANDO MANZANERO - see his video on youtube with PlacidoDomingo at the Maya temple of Chichen Itza and a philharmonic orchestra DOMINGO MANZANERO ADORO (he sings part of it in the Maya language:Ikkatixch tuxkkabi.... "I adore you...") The best Native American in modern medicine is DR. YVETTE ROUBIDEAUX, a Rosebud-Sioux, Harvard grad,Professor of Internal Medicine, now Director General of U.S. Indian Health Services. $ 4 billion annual budget, 2000+ Native American Physicians, 600medical centers. A 5 year young Nahua (AZTEC) as trumpet soloist of a philharmonic youth orchestra, with Carpentier's 17th century, France "Te Deum"see youtube ORQUESTA ESPERANZA AZTECA TE DEUM. ---The point: Stop the whining about traditional ethnic hocus pocus: With the right educationand environment all those people can also function on the the highest levels of any civilization.
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8 DAYS AGO
DanAdamsI what sense are the Masai passing away? Their numbers have doubled in 25 years.
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10 DAYS AGO
VincentAlexanderThere's a big difference between cultures evolving, even if that evolution is done in a marginalizing environment, and 'passing away'. The Chukchi comprise15% of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Kazakhs are the second largest ethnic group in Mongolia. The Goroka hold the most well known spiritual festival inall of Papua New Guinea. The reason this book might reek of colonialism to some people is because it is inherently colonialist to wander around shooting awanna-be National Geographic spread while ignoring the demographic changes that affect the majority of the people in these tribes who, for better or worse,no longer see this 'way of life' as their own.
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8 DAYS AGO
DanAdamsgreat comment@VincentAlexander
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4 DAYS AGO
Silverpas VincentAlexander
To me, the comments that hold up the anti-colonialism banner try to have it both ways: either they tell us that we are viewing traditionalcultures with quaint interest and misplaced sadness at their passing ("colonial" mindset a la National Geographic) or else they decry Westernland-grabbing commerical interests that either deliberately destroy, or simply have no interest in, the cultures theyeliminate. Moreover, regarding "evolving" cultures, let's not kid ourselves: their descendents might survive, but within just several generationsof intense contact and/or integration, the depth of culture that remains is generally only a faint shadow of what it had been for countlessgenerations. This is not "evolution." You can't have your cake and eat it, too. Count me among the mourners.
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