Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt (b. 1964) is an English photographer whose themes relate to the disappearing natural world, before much of it is destroyed by mankind. His current work, SINK/RISE, is the third chapter in the series, The Day May Break which he began in 2021. SINK/RISE focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans. The people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises. 

Brandt devoted his photographic career to showing the disappearing natural world in East Africa. Beginning in 2001, he photographed a trilogy of works, charting the progress of paradise to diminished reality. From 2016-2019 he created a series of epic panoramas recoridng the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do.

Brandt has had solo gallery and museum shows around the world, including 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 and ecosystem of a large area of Kenya and Tanzania.