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SINK / RISE
Signed & Dedicated Copy
Pub. Date : Spring 2024
120 pages, 70+ images, 12.75” x 12” (32.5 x 30.5 cm)
Published by Hatje Cantz, 2024
Essays by Nick Brandt and Zoe Lescaze
SINK / RISE is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.
This third chapter focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change.
The local people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises.
Everything is shot in-camera underwater.
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THE DAY MAY BREAK: CHAPTER TWO
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Pub. Date : 2023
144 pages, 80+ images, 12.75” x 12” (32.5 x 30.5 cm)
Published by Hatje Cantz
Essays by Nick Brandt and Daniel Sherrell
Some of Nick Brandt’s subjects are humans, some are animals, but they all are creatures of equal and obvious personhood. The overwhelming sense in the photographer’s ongoing global series The Day May Break is that they are figuring out how to live in a new world. Each has arrived at the shoot at Senda Verde wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia through their own cascade of misfortune. Both extreme droughts and floods have destroyed people’s homes and livelihoods.
Victims of habitat destruction and wildlife trafficking, the animals are rescues that can never be re-released back into the wild.. Their portraits were taken in the same frame and indeed convey a sense of connectedness through a shared fate. Fog comes wafting through the frame: it is the unifying visual, symbolic of the natural world rapidly fading from view, an echo of the smoke from wildfires, intensified by climate change, devastating so much of the planet. But despite their loss, these people and animals are survivors, pioneers entering a new phase our world has reached. In The Day May Break, Chapter Two they share their powerful stories.
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THE DAY MAY BREAK: CHAPTER ONE
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Pub. Date : 2022
168 pages, 90+ images, 12.75” x 12” (32.5 x 30.5 cm)
Published by Hatje Cantz
Essays by Yvonne Adhiambo Uwuor, Percival Everett and Nick Brandt
Photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, The Day May Break is the first part of a global series by acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt, portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.
The people in these photographs were all affected by climate change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts. Photographed at five sanctuaries, the animals were rescues that can never be rewilded. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, photographed so close to them, within the same frame. The fog on location is the unifying visual motif, conveying the sense of an ever-increasing limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading from view. However, despite their respective losses, these people and animals have survived, and therein lies possibility and hope.
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THIS EMPTY WORLD
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Pub. Date: 2019
128 pages, 84 photos, 15" x 13" (38 x 33 cm)
Thames & Hudson, 2019
Essays by Nick Brandt
Moving into color photography for the first time, this monograph of new work from photographer Nick Brandt is both a technical tour de force of contemporary image making and an ambitiously scaled project that uses constructed sets of a scale typically seen in major film productions.
Each image is a combination of two photographs taken weeks apart, almost all from the exact same camera position. The starting point of each composition is always the animal photographed in its native savannah landscape. Brandt then designs and builds sets in the precise location of the original photograph depicting the human developments, such as gas stations, highway and bridge construction sites, and bus stations, that are invading the East African landscape. A second sequence is then photographed with the completed set, populated by a large cast of people drawn from local communities and beyond.
The final images are powerful composites of the two source photographs, which presents the wild animals and the people as equal victims of the environmental—both now aliens in their once-natural, once-native habitat.
Including an introductory essay by Nick Brandt and a descriptive behind-the- scenes section, this new book is a must-have publication for all fans of Brandt’s work.
INHERIT THE DUST
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Pub. Date: 2016
124 pages, 70 photos, 15" x 13" (38 x 33 cm)
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016
Printed in the U.S. at Meridian, R.I.
Essays by Nick Brandt
Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs — showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras — placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape.
Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. There are also two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa, and behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt’s elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs.
ACROSS THE RAVAGED LAND
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Pub. Date: 2013
120 pages, 52 quadtone plates, 15" x 13" (38 x 33 cm)
Abrams Books, 2013
Printed in the U.S. at Meridian, R.I.
Essays by Nick Brandt
In addition to a range of starkly powerful animal portraits, Brandt introduces some new themes, as humans make an appearance for the first time. He also contributes two essays summing up his photographic odyssey, which has taken more than a decade of intensive work to complete.
ON THIS EARTH A SHADOW FALLS
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Pub. Date: 2012
192 pages, 90 plates
(54 photos from A Shadow Falls, 36 Photos from On This Earth)
D.A.P. / Big Life Editions, 2014
Linen cover with tipped-on image, 13.5" x 15.3" (34.3 x 39 cm) and custom-made hard acetate jacket.
Containing the 90 best photos selected from the first two books, available for the first time in one book. Featuring 300-line quadtone reproductions by Meridian Printing in Rhode Island, and printed under the photographer's supervision, the high-quality technique and attention to detail has allowed the book to succeed where the previous volumes have not.
As of November 2023, there are less than 10 copies of the book left. It will never be reprinted.
