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Hatje Cantz : Nick Brandt : The Day May Break

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The Day May Break was photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020. It is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.

The people in the photos have all been badly affected by climate change – some displaced by cyclones that destroyed their homes, others such as farmers displaced and impoverished by years-long severe droughts.

The photographs were taken at five sanctuaries/ conservancies. The animals are almost all long-term rescues, victims of everything from the poaching of their parents, to habitat destruction and poisoning.

These animals can never be released back into the wild. As a result, they are habituated, and so it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, and photographed in the same frame at the same time.

The fog is the unifying visual. We increasingly find ourselves in a kind of limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading from view. Created by fog machines on location, the fog is also an echo of the suffocating smoke from the wildfires, driven by climate change, devastating so much of the planet.

However, in spite of their loss, these people and animals are the survivors. And therein lies possibility and hope.

The people and animals were photographed in the same frame, all the images were made in camera without post production tricks. This is the first part of a global series.

 

Nick Brandt : The Day May Break
Published by Hatje Cantz
Essays by Yvonne Adhiambo Uwuor, Percival Everett and Nick Brandt

168 pages, 13.75” x 13”
$65 / €54

www.hatjecantz.de

 

www.nickbrandt.com

www.biglife.org

 

Exhibitions 
London, UK, Atlas Gallery / Closes November 6, 2021
(Via Appointments)
Los Angeles, CA, Fahey Klein Gallery / Closes October 31, 2021
Custot Gallery, Dubai, September 28 – Closes November 6, 2021
New York, NY, Edwynn Houk Gallery / Opens January 20, 2022
Polka Galerie, Paris / Opens January 27, 2022

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