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Nick Brandt Landscape Photography

British, b. 1964

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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Artist: Nick Brandt
Quarry with Giraffe
By Nick Brandt
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 3/15, includes black frame. Nick Brandt is an English photographer whose themes always relate to the disappearing natural world, before much of it is destroyed by mankind. From...
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2010s Nick Brandt Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Elephant Cathedral, Maasai Mara, 2007 – Nick Brandt, Animal, Africa, Documentary
By Nick Brandt
Located in Zurich, CH
NICK BRANDT (*1966, England) Elephant Cathedral, Maasai Mara, 2007 Archival Pigment Print Sheet 109,2 x 96,5 cm (43 x 38 in.) Edition of 15 (#12/15) print only Nick Brandt is a cont...
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2010s Contemporary Nick Brandt Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lioness on Mound, Maasai Mara
By Nick Brandt
Located in Sante Fe, NM
There is perhaps something more profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East Africa, as opposed to say, the Arctic or South America). And there is also something i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nick Brandt Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lion with Monolith, Serengeti
By Nick Brandt
Located in Sante Fe, NM
There is perhaps something more profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East Africa, as opposed to say, the Arctic or South America). And there is also something i...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nick Brandt Landscape Photography

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Platinum

Wildebeest Arc, Maasai Mara, 2006
By Nick Brandt
Located in Sante Fe, NM
There is perhaps something more profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East Africa, as opposed to say, the Arctic or South America). And there is also something i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nick Brandt Landscape Photography

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Platinum

Abandoned Ostrich Egg, Amboseli 2007
By Nick Brandt
Located in Sante Fe, NM
There is perhaps something more profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East Africa, as opposed to say, the Arctic or South America). And there is also something i...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nick Brandt Landscape Photography

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Platinum

Hippos on the Mara River, Maasai Mara
By Nick Brandt
Located in Sante Fe, NM
There is perhaps something more profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East Africa, as opposed to say, the Arctic or South America). And there is also something i...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nick Brandt Landscape Photography

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Platinum

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