"These are cautionary tales of tenuous survival, and while the
pictures themselves are fascinating because of how strange it is to
think of the animals and people calmly sharing personal space, it should
not be happening and it feels both magical and ominous, hopeful and
unsettling." -Shana Nys Dambrot, L.A. Weekly
Some of Nick Brandt's subjects are humans, some are animals, but they
all are creatures of equal and obvious personhood. The overwhelming
sense in the photographer's ongoing global series The Day May Break is
that they are figuring out how to live in a new world. Each has arrived
at the shoot at Senda Verde wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia through their
own cascade of tragedy. Both extreme droughts and floods have destroyed
people's homes and livelihoods.
Some of Nick Brandt's subjects are humans, some are animals, but they
all are creatures of equal and obvious personhood. The overwhelming
sense in the photographer's ongoing global series The Day May Break is
that they are figuring out how to live in a new world. Each has arrived
at the shoot at Senda Verde wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia through their
own cascade of misfortune. Both extreme droughts and floods have
destroyed people's homes and livelihoods.
Nick Brandt (born 1964) studied film and painting at St Martin's
College in London. He turned to photography in 2001 with his trilogy On
This Earth, A Shadow Falls and Across the Ravaged Land. His more
recent books are Inherit the Dust (2016), This Empty World (2019)
and The Day May Break (2021). He lives in Southern California.
