Nick Brandt: On This Earth, A Shadow Falls

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In 2001, Nick Brandt embarked on an ambitious photographic project, a trilogy of books memorializing the fast-disappearing natural grandeur of East Africa. That specialize in probably the most world’s last great populations of large mammals–elephants, giraffes, lions, gorillas and their kin–he created two of the twenty-first century’s most popular photographic books: the instant bestsellers On This Earth (2005) and A Shadow Falls (2009). Portraying East Africa’s animals with a solemnity and empathy frequently reserved for human subjects, Brandt’s photographs “tell us, in a way that may be beyond words, that we don’t own this planet, and aren’t the only beings living on it who matter,” as philosopher Peter Singer writes in an essay in this new volume. On This Earth, A Shadow Falls collects the most memorable images from Brandt’s first two books in a handsome linen-bound edition, printed in quadratone at Meridian in the U.S. A bestseller since its release in 2012, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls includes essays by Peter Singer, primatologist Jane Goodall, creator Alice Sebold and photography critic Vicki Goldberg. With Africa’s natural resources being fast wiped out, this volume stands all of the more movingly as a last testament and elegy to a disappearing world.
Born in England, Nick Brandt currently lives in the mountains of Southern California. Solo exhibitions of his work have been shown in museums and galleries around the globe. Brandt cofounded Big Life Foundation in 2010, which helps give protection to the endangered wildlife inhabiting a large area of East Africa.

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