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| CHEETAH FAMILY photo by Nick Brandt |
Nick Brandt's photos stand out as some of the most dramatic and beautiful WILDLIFE photographs ever made in black and white. His book 'A Shadow Falls' came out in 2009 and has sold more copies than any fine art book published. He uses film in his Pentax 67 camera. His decision to not use telephoto lenses brought him into close contact with his four legged subjects and, I believe, contributes greatly to the power and intimacy of his photographs. To find out more about Nick Brandt go to link below.
"Nick Brandt photographs exclusively in Africa, one of his goals being to record an elegy and last testament to the wild animals and natural world there before they are lost forever at the hands of man.
In the 12 years from 2001-2012, he worked on a trilogy of photographic essays, charting this disappearing world. The title of the three books form one consecutive sentence:
On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across The Ravaged Land."
Brandt has had multiple solo gallery and museum shows around the world, including in New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Paris and Los Angeles.
Born and raised in England, he now lives in the southern Californian mountains.
He is co-founder of Big Life Foundation, fighting to protect the animals of a large area of Kenya and Tanzania."
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