Jimmy Nelson photographed 35 tribes all over the world for book `` 'Before They Pass Away '' `` In my eyes the tribespeople are emotionally and socially very rich but materially very poor , and we ( in the West ) are the opposite , '' he says . Nelson photographed tribes in Ethiopia , Kenya , Tanzania and Namibia . He also traveled to South Africa where he documented a tribe called the Khoi people who live on an island off of Cape Town.
Jimmy Nelson photographed 35 tribes all over the world for book `` 'Before They Pass Away '' Nelson photographed tribes in Ethiopia , Kenya , Tanzania and Namibia . He also traveled to South Africa where he documented a tribe called the Khoi people who live on an island off of Cape Town.