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Book SynopsisWorking in colour for the first time, Nick Brandt's latest project uses complex composition and dramatically cinematic staging to highlight environmental degradation in the world and its effect on both animal and human life.
Trade Review'Astonishing … a new genre of photography, both technological and conceptual, that brings together science and the visual arts … delivers the emotional shock rarely felt, but needed in full, to accelerate global conservation' - E.O. Wilson, Theorist, Biologist & Author
'Nick Brandt has captured in art, what our minds have could not have imagined … These images vividly remind us that a future without our wildlife and the options that they bring is a desperately poor one. It does not have to be this way. We just have to wake up and look at Brandt's images to see what we are doing' - Dr. Paula Kahumbu, O.G.W., Chief Executive Officer WildlifeDirect, Kenya
'Shows how wildlife and humans collide on a grand scale' - Choice
'Powerful and haunting' - Widewalls
'A harrowing and deeply moving omen of a landscape devoid of its wildlife and essential life force' - Hero
'This work, for the first time in digital and in colour, shows us both the possibility and the impossibility of animals coexisting with man' - The Eye of Photography
'Brandt’s photographs – which never hide the fact that they have been staged – address this question. How can humanity co-exist with the natural world and at what cost?' - The Herald
'Nick Brandt’s new work shows people and animals alike swept away in a tide of progress' - Mother Jones
'Showcases stunning scenes of animals and humans trying to live side by side in a rapidly developing environment' - Daily Beast
'Brandt paints a compelling yet devastating picture of the state of nature on our planet through his cinematic photographs, presented here at large scale for maximum impact' - Outdoor Photography
'Dazzles with its imposing scale, colorful detail, and technical ambition … an arresting body of work' - Brooklyn Rail
'A collection of epic, eerie and beautiful panoramas' - Digital Camera Magazine
Table of ContentsIntroduction • Essay • The Plates • Bloodshot Eyes (and how they got that way), Nick Brandt
