FMP Culture study (Jimmy Nelson)

During this topic I came across Jimmy Nelson's series 'Before they pass away'. It involved him travelling around the world photographing tribes who continue to live their traditional way of life despite development around the world that provides a simpler way of life. Nelson wanted to document these alternative ways of life by living amongst these people to get a full understanding of their culture and lifestyle.

Nelson began his career after a 10 year stay at boarding school in England, as an escape he traveled for a year to Tibet and returned with photographs that would later be published across the world. From this point onwards he would be commissioned to do this for a living and continue to photograph areas and people rarely seen. 

I took inspiration from this and would like to create short animations based on cultures similar to these. I will most likely go about this using the rotoscoping technique as so far from my experience its the best way to get an accurate representation of movement. I will need to find a way to tie these shorts together suggestions such as a plane or girl travelling the world have been suggested which are two possibilities I'm looking into. I was equally taken by Glen Keane's 'Duet' as it showed the evolution of two peoples lives from childhood, this technique was very effective and would allow room to fit multiple settings and situations in.    

Here are a few sketches I did of Nelsons photographs-