'The destruction of the natural world is far more complex than we think.'
Photographer Nick Brandt has spent years working in East Africa, documenting the stark contrast between the region's natural beauty and the devastating impact of humans on the environment.
, a nonprofit conservation organization that enlists over 200 local rangers to protect 1.6 million acres in Kenya and Tanzania.visualizes the landscapes of East Africa as places of extreme environmental stress, where wild beasts roam the industrialized and polluted lands that were once theirs.
So what you see in these photos is, for me, symbolic of this invasion of the remaining natural wilderness by humans, as the animals are wiped out in the rapidly decreasing number of places they can live.Environmental degradation will almost always affect poor rural people the most, due to the exhausted natural resources upon which they rely. The real villains — the majority of politicians, industrialists, and their largely self-serving kind — are all off camera.
I’m glad you asked this question because of course, most people initially think that in this day and age of ubiquitous photoshop, that I probably photographed the animals and then composited in preexisting locations from somewhere else. In reality, almost every photograph is a combination of two moments in time, captured weeks apart, almost all from the exact same locked-off camera position.
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