With his new book Homage to Humanity, photographer Jimmy Nelson takes you on a new and extraordinary journey, visiting indigenous communities dotted across five continents. His iconic, intimate and spectacular images from each destination are accompanied by travel journals, maps, local facts, and personal interviews with some of the people portrayed. Join Jimmy Nelson on an odyssey that takes him to some of the planet’s most remote and beautiful places, home to many vibrant, thriving but sometimes fragile cultures. We hope this book will be a catalyst for a meaningful discussion about all our futures.

Homage to Humanity will reveal an intimate insight to the peoples of over thirty iconic cultures from around the world. You will become captivated by unknown and unspoiled realms, filled with the pageantry and ancient tradition. From the Himalayas with the Sharchop in Bhutan to the Mundari on the dry, isolated vast plains of South Sudan. The images are fascinating, if slightly unsettling and transcend rich cultural prosperity, symbolism and pride in then face of the looming threat of modern society.

‘The world does not belong to us; we belong to the world.’ Donna Karan (foreword Homage to Humanity)

To accompany Homage to Humanity, Jimmy Nelson and his team have created a companion mobile app. It is a remarkable record of their journeys on a state-of-the-art platform, with immersive 360 films, behind-the-scenes footage, storytelling and more. Each image in this book has hidden, digital layers. Go even deeper into Jimmy Nelson’s photographs with exciting additional material that will bring you new insights into his work, and new perspectives on the lives of the people he visited.

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Since his first internationally acclaimed exploration through Tibet almost 30 years ago, Jimmy Nelson (UK, 1967) has traveled to the world’s most hidden corners to photograph indigenous peoples. In 2013 he published his first book ‘Before They Pass Away’, with which his lifelong dream, to create awareness about the world’s unimaginable diversity, became reality.

The name chosen for this book had roused attention as it may give the impression that he pessimistically saw the sealed fate of those peoples he had come to meet. And maybe this is how he initially felt. But since he published his first book, his sustained and amazing interaction with the most diverse range of peoples have made him backtrack on this view. Where there are challenges, there are solutions. he has come to appreciate the pride, strength, vigour, honour and resilience of the people he asked to pose for his lense. This provides him with an unending inspiration to continue his work and set up the Jimmy Nelson Foundation.

`We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.’ – Aboriginal Australian saying

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