Born in 1967 in Sevenaoks, kent, he started working as a photographer in the year 1987. His interest in photography became alive not merely for career purposes. In fact, it all began when he set off on a journey in the hopes of finding himself in Tibet. On this journey, he became good friends with his camera, and eventually felt incited to further scrutinize and explore the areas he visited, and was eager to do the same around the world. Eventually, he created an ethnographic photographic documentation, which was published in his book 'Before They Pass Away'.
Inevitably, with such a task at hand, experience comes along. In his speech, he ushers three key lessons he has learnt on his journey.
Lesson 1: Things are not always what they seem to be. "You never know what's around the corner", he states, and urges the audience to look deeply at the people around, as prejudice is easy to fall into.
Lesson 2: No matter where you are, if you come to understand yourself, and cart living in harmony with the environment, you will gain an understanding off hat makes you happy. In addition, no matter where you are, in life, you have choices to make about what makes you happy.
Lesson 3: Demolish the walls that separate you from others. This will help you communicate. Once we lose these cultures, we lose a part of us that once held our authenticity, our origins. Different cultures we may come from, but we can learn from each other.
This is a photograph of a person from a tribe called Maori (North Island).
All of this information and photos have been taken from a Jimmy Nelson official website.
Now we may or may not all agree that these cultures are ideal and appealing. Modern life has convinced us that early cultures hardly have anything to offer. In fact, before watching Jimmy Nelson's speech, I was prevailed upon that myself. However, being what we are today, and judging others the way the majority of the societies do today, what had we done? Certainly nothing positive. We lost passion, we destroyed the natural resources. We find ourselves superior, and underestimate the glory of deviant thoughts and ways of doing things. This additionally led to many wars and lack of empathy towards people that we find alien. Hence, I truly appreciate what Jimmy nelson has done, and I specifically appreciate the fact that it is love, passion and curiosity that drive shim to do what he does with authenticity, ethics, understanding and devotion.
Ryan Gibboney
Ryan Gibboney, a visual designer and an educator, graduated from SCAD and earned her MFA at Purdue University. Her teaching philosophy suggests so much positivity about her design ethics.
She is credible that design duration has the tendency to impact both the designer and the community. Design should support what society needs. It is a designer's responsibility to think of ways to create solutions that are sustainable and comprehensive to provide society with its needs and safety.
Read more about her on her official website.
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