Jimmy Nelson (mai daukar hoto)

James Philip Nelson (an haife shi a shekara ta 1967) ɗan Ingila ne mai ɗaukar hoto. An san shi da hotunan kabilanci da 'yan asalin ƙasar.

Tarihi da farkon aiki

James Philip Nelson was born in 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent.  He spent his childhood in Africa, Asia and South America, traveling around with his father, who worked as a geologist for International Shell. At the age of 7, he was sent to Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit boarding school in Lancashire, UK. When he was 16, he developed Alopecia totalis, a condition in which all the hair falls out, which was caused by a culmination of stress and a reaction to malaria medication.

A shekara ta 1985, yana da shekaru 17, ya bar makarantar kwana kuma ya fara tafiya a tsawon Tibet da ƙafa. Ya ɗauki ƙaramar kyamara a kan tafiyarsa kuma ya ɗauki hotunan tafiyarsa, wanda ya ɗauki kusan shekaru biyu. Bayan dawowa, tarin hotunan da ya dauka a cikin ƙasar da ba a iya isa ba a buga su ta hanyar Ingilishi National Geographic, zuwa yabo na duniya.

Bayan wannan tafiya, Nelson ya fara ƙarin tafiye-tafiye, yana rubuta yankuna daban-daban na yaƙi, gami da Afghanistan, Kashmir, Yugoslavia, Somalia da El Salvador, kuma ya fara aiki a matsayin ƙwararren ɗan jarida mai daukar hoto, har zuwa shekara 24.

In 1992 Nelson was commissioned by Shell Oil to produce the book "Literary Portraits of China". He travelled across the country for 30 months, together with his then wife, Ashkaine Hora Adema, who participated in the making of the book, and became the subsequent business partner of Nelson.

Daga 1997 zuwa gaba, Nelson ya fara aiki a fagen tallace-tallace na kasuwanci. A wannan lokacin, ya ci gaba da tattara hotuna na al'adu masu nisa da masu zaman kansu.

Hotuna

Kafin Sun Fito

In 2010, Nelson started to work on his second book, Before they Pass Away.

Nelson ya ce aikin "ya yi wahayi zuwa gare shi daga Edward S. Curtis da manyan hotunansa na 'yan asalin Amurka". Kamar Curtis, Nelson ya rubuta batunsa a cikin soyayya, salon da kuma sanya su, tare da manufar "sa su a kan wani tushe". Nelson ya ce ba a nufin aikin ya isar da "gaskiya ba, amma a maimakon haka fassararsa ta fasaha da bikin bambancin da kyau. " Ƙabilun da Nelson ya ɗauka sun haɗa da kabilun Huli da Kalam na New Guinea, Tsaatan na Mongolia da Mutanen Mursi na kwarin Kogin Omo a kudancin Habasha.[his]

A cikin jawabin TED ya bayyana tsarin aiki da aka yi amfani da shi a cikin wannan aikin kuma ya bayyana cewa a wasu lokuta yana ɗaukar "watanni suna ƙoƙarin gano [waɗannan 'yan asalin ƙasar] sannan kuma makonni don samun amincewarsu da izinin ɗaukar hoto . "

Nelson ya ranta kudade don aikin daga wani dan kasar Holland, Marcel Boekhoorn . A sakamakon aikin, an buga littafi wanda ke dauke da hotuna da matani, iyakantaccen littafin, da kuma hotunan hotunan da aka buga.