NICK BRANDT: Inherit The Dust, a monograph

Wasteland With Elephants, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt's latest book, Inherit The Dust, is a tragic desolate look into our fast approaching future without the majestic beauty of wildlife. An elegant, beautifully designed and printed edition with 68 black-and-white tritone images; two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa; and a behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt’s elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs. One of the most important Best Books of 2016.

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Quarry With Lion, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Wasteland With Rhinos, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Quarry With Giraffe, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Underpass With Elephants, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Wasteland With Cheetahs and Children, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Road Junction With Qumquat and Family, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Inherit The Dust Behind The Scenes

Elephant Panel on Dumpsite 

Photographs © Nick Brandt

 "Due to the urgent nature of the subject matter,

I'm on a mission to get this work exposed"-Nick Brandt

The wasted lands in Inherit The Dust were once golden Savannah, sprinkled with acacia trees, where elephants, big cats and rhinos roamed. These now dystopian landscapes - as Nick Brandt's unvarnished, harrowing but stunning work reveals - brings us face to face with a crisis, both social and environmental, demanding the renewal of humanity itself. -Kathryn Bigelow, Film Director, The Hurt Locker

Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across the Ravaged Land, documenting the disappearing animals of eastern Africa, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs―showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras―placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. 

In 2010, Nick Brandt and award-winning conservationist Richard Bonham, co-founded the Big Life Foundation. Relying on a grass roots effort and calling on inclusive community collaboration, Big Life Foundation was the first organization in East Africa with a coordinated, cross-border anti-poaching operation covering the Kenya/Tanzania border. Five years after its creation, the Foundation now employs more than 300 rangers, 41 permanent and mobile outposts, 15 patrol vehicles, 2 planes for aerial monitoring, and protects over two-million acres of the land.

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

through May 7, 2016

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

through May 14, 2016

Inherit The Dust
Photographs by Nick Brandt
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

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Future Exhibition Dates:

May 18 - May 22 2016
ATLAS GALLERY, SOLO EXHIBITION 

PHOTO LONDON, LONDON

May 20 - September 11 2016
FOTOGRAFISKA MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM

May 13 - July 9 2016
CAMERA WORK, BERLIN

May 23-July 30 2016
A GALERIE, PARIS

June 1 - June 26 2016
LOOK3 FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

June 9 - July 23 2016
PHOTO-EYE, SANTA FE

July 26 - August 14 2016
SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHICA, MELBOURNE

July 26 - August 14 2016
SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHICA @ BLACKEYE, SYDNEY

September 15 - November 13 2016
WILLAS CONTEMPORARY, OSLO