Biography
Nick Brandt is a contemporary English photographer whose work focuses on the disappearing natural world. Since 2001, he has photographed the changing African continent. Brandt has established a style of portrait photography of animals in the wild, shot on medium format film, in an effort to portray animals as sentient creatures not so different from us. Among his best-known series is Inherit the Dust (2016), featuring epic panoramas that record the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In his more recent body of work, This Empty World (2019), the artist addresses the escalating destruction of the natural world, working in color and lighting constructed sets for the first time to create visually complex tableaux. Born in 1964 in London, United Kingdom, Brandt studied film and painting at Saint Martin’s School of Art. His photographs have been exhibited all over the world, including solo exhibitions at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, and the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki, among others. The artist now lives in Southern Californian. He is the co-founder of Big Life Foundation, fighting to protect the animals of a large area of Kenya and Tanzania.
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Biography
Nick Brandt is a contemporary English photographer whose work focuses on the disappearing natural world. Since 2001, he has photographed the changing African continent. Brandt has established a style of portrait photography of animals in the wild, shot on medium format film, in an effort to portray animals as sentient creatures not so different from us. Among his best-known series is Inherit the Dust (2016), featuring epic panoramas that record the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In his more recent body of work, This Empty World (2019), the artist addresses the escalating destruction of the natural world, working in color and lighting constructed sets for the first time to create visually complex tableaux. Born in 1964 in London, United Kingdom, Brandt studied film and painting at Saint Martin’s School of Art. His photographs have been exhibited all over the world, including solo exhibitions at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, and the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki, among others. The artist now lives in Southern Californian. He is the co-founder of Big Life Foundation, fighting to protect the animals of a large area of Kenya and Tanzania.
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