NICK BRANDT : BEHIND THE PHOTO

#14 : ALLEYWAY WITH CHIMPANZEE, 2014
The transformative power of context, part 2:
The portrait of the chimpanzee in a river bed was taken back in 2003, but as with all the animal portraits in Inherit the Dust, it was never released. I had rejected the original portrait because I had hoped for more of an emotional connection with the...

#14 : UNDERPASS WITH ELEPHANTS, 2015 (Lean Back, Your Life is On Track)
The transformative power of context. What do I mean? Read on....
I took the good but unremarkable photo of an elephant mother and her calves a few years ago, but didn’t think it special enough to release. But when revisiting it for Inherit the Dust, I realised how much more emotional and impactful it could be in its...

#13 : WASTELAND WITH ELEPHANT, 2015
An elephant strides across the savannah towards camera. But where a sea of grass once was, all is human garbage.
The original photo of the elephant is a previously unreleased shot taken in 2008. A beautiful bull with the unlikely name of Little Male. He was speared the year after this photo was taken, but survived, and is hopefully still alive in the Amboseli ecosystem...

#12 :
LINE OF RANGERS HOLDING TUSKS KILLED AT THE HANDS OF MAN, AMBOSELI 2011
I wish that I had never had to take this photo.