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Underpass With Elephant - Black and White Photography by Nick Brandt
By Nick Brandt
Located in London, GB
label Edition of 15 Born in England, Nick Brandt has devoted his photographic career to showing the
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Lioness Against Dark Foliage, Serengeti- Black and White Photography Nick Brandt
By Nick Brandt
Located in London, GB
Edition of 15 Born in England, Nick Brandt has devoted his photographic career to showing the
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Elephant on Bare Earth, Amboseli - Black and White Photography by Nick Brandt
By Nick Brandt
Located in London, GB
Platinum print Edition of 15 Born in England, Nick Brandt has devoted his photographic career to
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Portrait of Two Zebras Turning Heads - Black and White Photography, Nick Brandt
By Nick Brandt
Located in London, GB
development, factories, wasteland and quarries. Nick Brandt’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in
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Lions Head to Head, Masai Mara - Black and White Photography by Nick Brandt
By Nick Brandt
Located in London, GB
Edition of 15 Born in England, Nick Brandt has devoted his photographic career to showing the
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Bupa and People in Fog, Kenya, 2020
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
Nick Brandt is an English photographer who focuses his work around humanity’s destruction of the
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Marisol and Luka, Bolivia, 2022
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
Nick Brandt is an English photographer who focuses his work around humanity’s destruction of the
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Cheetah Against Dark Sky, Masai Mara, 2004 - Black and White Photography
By Nick Brandt
Located in London, GB
Archival pigment print Signed on recto 28 x 22 inches Edition of 20 Born in England, Nick Brandt
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Abandoned Ostrich Egg, Amboseli
By Nick Brandt
Located in Lucerne, CH
Fusing art and activism, Nick Brandt focuses on the animals that roam Tanzania and Kenya, capturing
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Lioness in Dark Foliage, Serengeti, 2012
By Nick Brandt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the third series in photographer Nick Brandt’s epic vision and ongoing effort to capture
Elephant Mother with Baby at Leg, Amboseli, 2012
By Nick Brandt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the third series in photographer Nick Brandt’s epic vision and ongoing effort to capture
Lion Roar, Maasai Mara, 2012
By Nick Brandt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the third series in photographer Nick Brandt’s epic vision and ongoing effort to capture
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Elephant Group on bare earth, Amboseli, 2008
By Nick Brandt
Located in Lucerne, CH
Fusing art and activism, Nick Brandt focuses on the animals that roam Tanzania and Kenya, capturing
Digital
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Maria by Reef
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Mika
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Akessa Looking Down I
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Paul
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Serafina holding her brother Keanan II
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Akessa in Chair
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Joel and Petero on Seesaw
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Akessa and Maria on Sofa
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Onnie and Keanan on the Seesaw
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Joel by Cliff
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Serafina at table
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Petero by Cliff
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Halima, Abdul and Frida, Kenya
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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. ...
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Najin and People in Fog, Kenya, 2020
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Juana and Hernak, Bolivia, 2022
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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 im...
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John and Mak, Kenia, 2020
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Carmen and Zosa, Bolivia, 2022
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Luis and Hernak, Bolivia, 2022
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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 ev...
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Lucio and Chascas, Bolivia, 2022
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Regina and Jack, Levi and Diesel, Zimbabwe, 2020
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Kuda and Sky II, Zimbabwe, 2020
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Patrick and Flamingos, Zimbabwe, 2020
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Fatuma, Ali and Bupa, Kenia, 2020
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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Alice, Stanley and Najin, Kenya, 2020
By Nick Brandt
Located in Madrid, MD
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...
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LIONESS AGAINST DARK FOLIAGE, SERENGETI
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
LIONESS AGAINST DARK FOLIAGE, SERENGETI, 2012 Archival pigment print 30 x 20 inches Edition of 15
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Wasteland with Elephant
By Nick Brandt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed, titled, dated, numbered on label verso
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Underpass with Elephants (Lean Back, Your Life is on Track)
By Nick Brandt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Quarry with Lion
By Nick Brandt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed, titled, dated, numbered on label verso
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Giraffe Triptych, Masai Mara, 2005
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Lioness with Cub in Mouth, Amboseli
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Lioness Against Dark Foliage, Serengeti
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Lion Before Storm II - Sitting Profile, Masai Mara
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
Artist Proof 1/2
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Calcified Swallow, Lake Natron
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 15
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Lion Roar, Maasai Mara
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 10
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Elephant Mother with Baby at Leg, Amboseli
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 10
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Elephant on Bare Earth, Amboseli, 2011
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 10
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Elephant Footprints, Amboseli
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Giraffes on Lake Bed, Amboseli
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Kudu Trophy, Chyulu Hills, Kenya
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Baboon Standing, Lake Natron
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Buffalo Trophy, Chyulu Hills, Kenya
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Lion & Wildebeest, Amboseli
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Lioness Circle, Serengeti
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Buffalo in Lake, Lake Natron
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
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Nick Brandt is an English contemporary photographer who has primarily worked in Africa. The themes in Brandt’s photography often relate to the destructive impact that humans are having on the natural world and how future generations will inherit the remnants of a once-vibrant planet. Brandt prefers not to use zoom lenses because he feels the animals he photographs are best captured up close.
Brandt studied painting and filmmaking at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in his hometown of London. In 1992, he moved to California, where he became a successful music video director, working with artists such as Michael Jackson, Jewel and Moby. In 1995, while filming Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” video in Tanzania, he was overcome by the beauty of the wild animals. In 2000, he embarked on a project to document the struggles of East African wildlife living in a landscape that is being overrun by exploding human populations and exploited for its natural resources. He filmed animals in the wild using an approach similar to studio portrait photography, reinforcing that animals are sentient creatures not so different from humans.
Brandt has frequently returned to Africa throughout his career. His acclaimed 2004 book, On This Earth, was followed by two more successful books, A Shadow Falls and Across the Ravaged Land, in 2007 and 2011. During work on the last in this trilogy, in 2010, he co-founded the Big Life Foundation, which fights to protect the animals and ecosystems of a large area of Kenya and Tanzania.
In 2019, Brant published This Empty World, bringing to light the ever-increasing destruction of the East African wilderness, where animals can no longer survive in the wake of human progress. It was his first time using color photography. His 2021 book, A Day May Break, captures the impact of climate change and environmental loss on humans and animals.
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