Nick Brandt Art

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

LUCIO VELA Lucio, a farmer, lives with his wife and daughter. In 2021, floods on a scale never before seen in the area, swept away everything in their path. Lucio lost all of his cr...

Patrick Chamutita Patrick has been a fisherman in Zimbabwe for 5 years, but the declining water levels in Lake Chivero is now making it difficult for him to continue fishing. The fis...

Halima and her husband lived in northeastern Kenya, where they raised livestock including camels. After 5-6 years with only one rainy season, the drought in 2013 was especially bad. ...

CARMEN CHURA Little by little, they built their house. Carmen worked as a bricklayer’s assistant with her husband, with whom she had two children. They were in the process of adding...

LUIS ZURITA Luis is a teacher at the community school, and also a farmer. In 2021, he lost practically all of his crops due to flooding from overflowing rivers. He remembers that events of this type never used to happen in the community and that weather events have changed enormously. He is aware that these changes and natural disasters are the results of global warming, so he tries to teach this to the children of the community, hoping that it will generate a change in attitude toward these problems. HERNAK Hernak, photographed when he was aged seven, was being sold on Facebook (sigh), when he was just a baby after his mother was killed. He was sent to the city of Santa Cruz, where he was kept in a temporary animal shelter. While there, he had surgery for a faecal impaction, and during recovery, Hernak opened the stitches. He was found in the morning with his intestines exposed and was rushed to the hospital. Somehow, he survived this. Hernak now lives in a large enclosure on a forested hillside at Senda Verde. Like Tarkus the bear, he seems endlessly curious and energetic. As always, the reasons for the decline in jaguars are multifaceted: habitat destruction from deforestation to an increasing number of wildfires; killing by livestock owners who pay their employees extra to shoot them, to feed an increased demand from China for the fangs of the jaguars. The supposed good luck, fortune, protection, and vitality offered by jaguar teeth—merely an extension of the Chinese belief that Asian tiger parts offer the same benefits—is at the heart of the demand. Offering $100 to $400 per tooth for jaguar fangs, the money to be made is too hard for many to resist. In addition to the skins and skulls, even the testicles are prized in China—as an aphrodisiac. (This is as insane as believing the same about rhino horn.) Chinese companies are going into partnership with the Bolivian government, stripping National Parks of resources, which makes matters worse. With the cooperation of the local prison system, Chinese nationals have created a thriving industry in which inmates are forced to create products such as purses and bags...

For Jack and Regina, their only source of food is a small plot of land for growing maize and vegetables. However, in recent years, their crops have failed, and with the worsening dro...

Kuda Ndima It was March 31, 2019. The heavy rains and winds came unexpectedly. And then Cyclone Idai. Kuda’s family lived in a low-lying area in eastern Zimbabwe, so they were the ha...

ALICE, STANLEY & NAJIN, KENYA, 2020 Floods destroyed Alice and Stanley’s house in central Kenya in 2017. They were too frightened to stay in case more floods came in the future. They...

FATUMA, ALI AND BUPA, KENYA, 2020 Ali and Fatuma originally lived as nomads with their livestock in northeastern Kenya. But starting in 2010, extended severe droughts killed all the...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

SINK / RISE: the third chapter of The Day May Break, a global series that portrays both people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Except this time, of...

Najin and People in the Fog - Najin and Fatu Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya Najin is one of the last two northern white rhinos in the world. When her daughter, Fatu dies, the species...

Nick Brandt is an English photographer who focuses his work around humanity’s destruction of the natural world. He spent nearly two decades photographing African wildlife and former ...

JOHN AND MAK, ZIMBABWE, 2020 John lives with his wife Margaret, and their nine grandchildren in central Zimbabwe,. They have a small farming plot. Like so many others there, the main challenge is not having access to water. The family walks two kilometers every day to collect water. And because of the prolonged droughts, their small farming plot remains unplanted. It has become difficult to feed everyone, so even in their old age, they survive by doing manual labor jobs. A century ago, there was an estimated 10 million...

JUANA FANEO TAE Juana grows peanuts and beans on about two acres. But the increased incidence of both droughts and floods, extreme heat and then cold, and winds, has dramatically impacted production. Lost harvests, once upon a time extremely rare, have become common for all of the farmers around her. The river by her has also become so contaminated due to mining, that now not even the fish can be eaten safely. That contamination, and the sheer amount of plastic pollution, has resulted in much reduced fish populations. Juana is also a naturopath, using plants from the nearby forest, which is a knowledge passed down through generations. Seventy-seven years old at the time of photographing, she had an energy and radiance of someone much younger, and like all the people in these photographs, was unfailingly gracious and patient. HERNAK Hernak, photographed when he was aged seven, was being sold on Facebook (sigh), when he was a just a baby, after the mother was killed. He was sent to the city of Santa Cruz, where he was kept in a temporary animal shelter. While there, he had surgery for a fecal impaction, and during recovery Hernak opened the stitches. He was found in the morning with his intestines exposed and was rushed to the hospital. Somehow, he survived this. Hernak now lives in a large enclosure on a forested hillside at Senda Verde. Like Tarkus the bear, he seems endlessly curious and energetic. As always, the reasons for the decline in jaguars is multifaceted: habitat destruction from deforestation to an increasing number of wildfires; killing by livestock owners who pay their employees extra to shoot them, to feed an increased demand from China for the fangs of the jaguars. The supposed good luck, fortune, protection, and vitality offered by jaguar teeth—merely an extension of the Chinese belief that Asian tiger parts offer the same benefits—is at the heart of the demand. Offering $100 to $400 per tooth for jaguar fangs, the money to be made is too hard for many to resist. In addition to the skins and skulls, even the testicles are prized in China—as an aphrodisiac. (This is as insane as believing the same about rhino horn.) Chinese companies are going into partnership with the Bolivian government, stripping National Parks of resources, which makes matters worse. With the cooperation of the local prison system, Chinese nationals have created a thriving industry in which inmates are forced to create products such as purses and bags...

Nick Brandt is an English photographer who focuses his work around humanity’s destruction of the natural world. He spent nearly two decades photographing African wildlife and former ...