Jimmy Nelson - The Lifelong Journey to Find Yourself

Nothing I write here will capture the emotional magnitude of the conversation I had with world renowned photographer and artist, Jimmy Nelson. The world knows him as a storyteller primarily via his gorgeous photography, but here is proof that listening to Jimmy tell his story as a guest on a podcast is a masterpiece in and of itself.

Jimmy Nelson has hauled his camera to the world&aposs most remote corners in order to create a living document of vanishing tribes and indigenous cultures. His first large-format book, "Literary Portraits of China", was a worldwide hit, culled from over 40 months of traveling through China. A collection of Jimmy’s photos, "Before They Pass Away", was published in 2013. In 2016, he and his team launched the Jimmy Nelson Foundation, which aims to foster appreciation for cultural diversity and celebrate polychromatic cultural identity.

Listen as Jimmy gifts us with stories of:

 His incredible journey from a childhood living like Mowgli from "The Jungle Book" to a traumatizing education at an abusive boarding schoolHis struggles with hating his own brain and bodyThe period as a reportage photographer or "a broken man disappearing into other people&aposs pain"His now legendary expeditions into uncharted territories befriending and photographing indigenous populations with his analog cameraPondering how quarantine has reinforced his gratitude for the adventures already had and those to come, even if at a small park across the street from his home in Amsterdam

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