Harriet and People in Fog, Nick Brandt

Harriet, a giant eagle owl, has lived at Kuimba Shiri for 35 years, rescued when she was just a chick as a result of deforestation. 

As with many of the birds rescued by Kuimba Shiri as chicks, she would not survive if reintroduced into the wild. Giant eagle owls are actually widespread across sub-Saharan Africa, although perhaps declining in rural areas due to deforestation. 

Photographed at Kuimba Shiri bird sanctuary, Zimbabwe.

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Sink / Rise, Nick Brandt

For the third chapter of Nick Brandt‘s long-term project addressing climate change, the photographer traveled to the South Pacific to address the urgent issues surrounding rising sea levels. 

 The result is SINK / RISE, an evocative set of underwater photographs featuring the young Fijians who will be most impacted by these rising waters.

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Forced from home

Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat.

 

Nick Brandt is back!

Armed with his medium format camera, he leads his ecological war against poachers and those who kill animals. This struggle, he leads with his art and with his foundation: Big Life Foundation.
 He does not let anything in this fight, he comes back to the fore, with as much creativity but today with a good risk since he leaves his black & white slightly sepia and committed to color.
 A statement that brings him even closer to reality as he creates impossible images.
 This “Empty World” according to Brandt, addresses the vertiginous destruction of nature by the hands of man, showing a world where, overwhelmed by uncontrolled development, there is more space for the survival of animals.

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Life-Size Portraits of Wildlife Installed in the Destructed African Lands They Once Inhabited

Photographer Nick Brandt has recently released a series of powerful images that explore the deterioration of wild habitats in East Africa. The project, titled Inherit the Dust, laments the urban sprawl that is rapidly displacing the wild elephants, rhinos, and lions that used to roam freely in the area. In the past three years, Brandt has watched the uncontrolled development of garbage dumps, factories, and quarries encroach upon the natural environment, transforming it into a teeming wasteland. To create the sombre images, Brandt used life-size prints of the animals that were then transferred onto giant panels and erected in place. Horizon lines were carefully matched between the prints and the background, and the melancholy weather conditions set the scene for the haunting, black and white final images.
The photos portray wild animals staring forlornly at the destruction, regarding the chaos like misplaced ghosts.

 

Nick Brandt's 'Petrified'

English photographer and conservationist Nick Brandt has produced this series of fascinating photographs of petrified animals in Tanzania.

 

Sotheby’s : Back to Black, Photographs

Ranger with Tusks of Killed Elephant, Nick Brandt

These undisputed masterpieces all bring a very specific and individual offering to the history of Photography.