Hong Kong, April 7 -- In an attempt to find his most authentic self, Dutch-British artistic photographer Jimmy Nelson helped us bond with our ancestral needs via powerful and preternatural portraits of people representing various indigenous communities from around the world. We spoke with Nelson about his photographic procedure, personal learnings, and more in a candid interview.

One scroll down his Instagram account, which has over 200 thousand followers, and you see Jimmy Nelson's vision emerging out of nowhere like water through a culvert. Culturally, aesthetically, geologically, ecologically, architecturally. From the Zapotecs of Mexico to the Nenets of Russia to the Tsaatan of Mongolia, his life's work is a cultural cargo of cerebra...