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Stunning Portraits Of The World’s Remotest Tribes Before They Pass Away (46 pics) Living in a concrete box with hot water pouring from the tap, a refrigerator cooling our food and wi-fi connecting us to the rest of the world, we can barely imagine a day in a life of, say, Tsaatan people.

Stunning Portraits Of The World’s Remotest Tribes Before They Pass Away (46 pics)

They move 5 to 10 times per year, building huts when the temperature is -40 and herding reindeer for transportation, clothing and food. “Before They Pass Away,” a long-term project by photographer Jimmy Nelson, gives us the unique opportunity to discover more than 30 secluded and slowly vanishing tribes from all over the world. [Read more...] Spending 2 weeks in each tribe, Jimmy became acquainted with their time-honoured traditions, joined their rituals and captured it all in a very appealing way. The Truth About Columbus Day (A.O.T.M.R Excerpt) » Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance. 15 Remarkable Colorized Photos Will Let You Relive History. One thing we really need to thank the internet for: colorized historical photographs.

15 Remarkable Colorized Photos Will Let You Relive History

Of course, the phenomenon comes to us courtesy of Photoshop and the talented editors who transformed black-and-white images into digital works of art. We're just happy we get to feast our eyes upon them. Thanks to the Reddit community known as Colorized History, we have a plethora of polychromatic snapshots that bring history back to life.