The “Art” of Communication by Jimmy Nelson
What is the deep meaning of communication?
According to John Adair, "Communication is essentially the ability of one person to make contact with another and make himself or herself understood." I believe that he is right, and by watching Jimmy Nelson's video, I learned what communication truly is.
Watching his video even though he spoke fast, making me want to halt him and let him breathe for a second. However, as I continued watching him, I was mesmerized. He has shown his mistakes, yet he didn't show any embarrassment at all. He embraced it and was proud that those were his mistakes. He also showed that he was confident, standing in front of the crowd and sharing his beautiful journeys with his posture, gestures, standing position, and expressing his video with his expressions, making me want to hear more of his stories.
Moreover, his video starts with him talking and with pictures behind him to emphasize his presentation. Then, he states that almost about 2 billion people posted pictures online every day, which essentially makes the whole world become photographers, making him tell his journey a few years ago with him going to Northern Magnolia to meet the Tsaatan Tribe. However, Mr. Nelson thought that he and his translator were okay and were understood; however, two weeks passed, Mr. Nelson happens to know that his time traveling was in vain. In fact, he and his translator have a misunderstanding at that time. Nevertheless, Mr. Nelson became patient and continued his travel until he finally met the tribe. Although there were communicating problems, Mr. Nelson proceeded to do his goal little by little until he reached and committed his goal.
Afterwards, Mr. Nelson decided to tell others his journeys which were all enjoyable to listen to and what I can't forget is when he went back to Namibia, on the right border of Angola, to show the Himba Tribe the pictures he took last time he went there. It was passionate, and they cry out of happiness when they saw each other again. Thus, Mr.Nelson gave his respect and dignity to the indigenous people and made himself a model of all the photographers right there.
Lastly, Mr. Nelson ends it with a moral lesson in which he said, "Until you truly let go. Until you truly form a humility. Can you find an empathy and in that empathy you can find a contact and in that contact you can discover who you truly are and who the people are around you "—in which this what struck on the people's minds, including myself. It made me realized that communication was not just speaking to other people. It is the emotions struck within it. The respect and humility we had shown to each other—the contact between other people. With Jimmy Nelson's spectacular video, it made me know the deeper meaning behind communication.
