Nick Brandt depicts the animals of East Africa with an intimacy and artistry unmatched by other photographers who choose wildlife as their subject. He creates these majestic sepia and blue-tone photos contrasting moments of quintessential stillness with bursts of dramatic action by engaging with these creatures on an exceptionally intimate level, without the customary use of a telephoto lens. Evocative of classical art, from dignified portraits to sweeping natural tableaux, Brandt's images artfully and simply capture animals in their natural states of being. With a foreword by Alice Sebold and an introduction by Jane Goodall, On This Earth is a gorgeous portfolio of some of the last wild animals and a heartfelt elegy to a vanishing world.
Nick Brandt photographs exclusively in Africa, one of his goals being to record an elegy and last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are gone at the hands of man.
Starting in 2001, he has been working on a trilogy of books, the first two of which have been published together in the volume "On This Earth, A Shadow Falls". The final volume in the trilogy, completing the sentence, will be published in September 2013.
Brandt has had multiple solo gallery and museum shows around the world, including in New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles. Born and raised in England, he now lives in the southern Californian mountains.
