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Nick Brandt is committed to the role of photographer as a social activist. He not only tells the vital stories of a natural world that is disappearing, but also uses that imagery to spread its important message in an effort to help save it. In this talk, Nick will discuss his long-term projects, including his newest The Day May Break. How does he produce the projects? Create the images? Exhibit and publish the resulting images? Nick will discuss all this and more.

The Day May Break is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals impacted by environmental destruction. The people in the photos have all been badly affected by climate change—their homes destroyed by cyclones, displaced & impoverished after years-long severe droughts. The photos were taken at five sanctuaries/conservancies. The animals are almost all long-term rescues, victims of everything from the poaching of their parents, to habitat destruction and poisoning. These animals can never be released back into the wild. Now habituated, the people and animals were photographed together in the same frame.

Nick’s talk will be followed by a Q&A. This will be a great opportunity to ask about anything from longterm projects and their place in our industry to Nick’s beautiful work. If you want to use your photography to tell important stories, you do not want to miss this!

Nick Brandt is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work focuses mostly on the rapidly disappearing natural world as a result of environmental destruction, climate change and man's actions. For the last 20 years, Brandt has repeatedly traveled to Africa for months at a time to address the impact of environmental destruction on the natural world and now humankind. The result has been a stunning body of work published in six books. He has also had solo gallery and museum shows around the world, including at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York. Wanting to do more to address the killing of animals within the Amboseli/Kilimanjaro ecosystem in Kenya and Tanzania, Brandt founded the non-profit Big Life Foundation in 2010. Big Life Foundation now employs several hundred rangers who protect approximately 1.6 million acres of ecosystem.

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