{"title":"Nick Brandt","description":"\u003cp\u003eNick Brandt's work invites readers into a profound dialogue between humanity and the natural world through visually striking narratives. His books, rich with evocative photography, explore the beauty and fragility of wildlife and landscapes, blending art with a poignant environmental message.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresented with a poetic sensibility, Brandt’s collections like \u003cem\u003eThe Day May Break\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Echo of Our Voices\u003c\/em\u003e transcend traditional nature photography. They offer a stirring reflection on loss, memory, and the urgent need for preservation, making these works essential for lovers of arts and culture alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nick-brandt-the-day-may-break-by-nick-brandt-9783775750899","title":"Nick Brandt: The Day May Break","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Day May Break\u003c\/em\u003e, photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The people in the photos were all affected by climate change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhotographed at five sanctuaries, the animals were rescues that can never be re-wilded. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, photographed so close to them, within the same frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fog on location is the unifying visual, as we increasingly find ourselves in a kind of limbo, a once-recognisable world now fading from view. However, in spite of their loss, these people and animals are the survivors. And therein lies possibility and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340963561708,"sku":"9783775750899","price":130.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ce1dcd2e7792a4b7f790429b695434b9.jpg?v=1772190467"},{"product_id":"nick-brandt-vol-2-the-day-may-break-by-nick-brandt-9783775754293","title":"Nick Brandt Vol. 2: The Day May Break","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of Nick Brandt's subjects are humans, some are animals, but they all are creatures of equal and obvious personhood. The overwhelming sense in the photographer's ongoing global series, \u003ci\u003eThe Day May Break\u003c\/i\u003e, is that they are all figuring out how to live in a new world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach has arrived at the shoot at Senda Verde wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia through their own cascade of tragedy. Both extreme droughts and floods have destroyed people's homes and livelihoods. Victims of habitat destruction and wildlife trafficking, the animals are rescues that can never be released to the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeople and animals were photographed in the same frame and indeed convey a sense of connectedness through a shared fate. Fog is the unifying visual, symbolic of the natural world rapidly fading from view; and an echo of the smoke from wildfires, intensified by climate change, devastating so much of the planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut in spite of their loss, these people and animals are survivors, pioneers entering the new phase our world has reached. In \u003ci\u003eThe Day May Break\u003c\/i\u003e, they share their powerful stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340963660012,"sku":"9783775754293","price":145.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/591747e2b86eb8459edcb2e83f27bd1e.jpg?v=1772190462"},{"product_id":"nick-brandt-the-echo-of-our-voices-by-nick-brandt-9788857253947","title":"Nick Brandt: The Echo of Our Voices","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fourth chapter of the celebrated series \u003ci\u003eThe Day May Break\u003c\/i\u003e by the renowned photographer Nick Brandt.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Echo of Our Voices\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth chapter of \u003ci\u003eThe Day May Break\u003c\/i\u003e, Nick Brandt's global series portraying people and animals impacted by climate change and environmental degradation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe series was photographed in Jordan, one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. It features rural Syrian refugee families currently living there, whose lives have been seriously impacted by droughts intensified by climate change. Living lives of continuous displacement, they are forced to move their homes up to several times a year, moving to where there is available agricultural work, to wherever there has been sufficient rainfall to enable crops to grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs show the families' connection and strength in the face of adversity, demonstrating that when all else is lost, you still have each other. The boxes on which the families gather aim skyward, serving as pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unheard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426428698860,"sku":"9788857253947","price":145.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9788857253947.jpg?v=1774767908"},{"product_id":"nick-brandt-this-empty-world-by-nick-brandt-9780500545140","title":"Nick Brandt: This Empty World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Empty World\u003c\/em\u003e, Nick Brandt's new monograph, features a series of dramatically staged photographs that bring together and reveal the animals and people of East Africa as the victims of environmental degradation in an emotionally powerful, cinematic way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving into colour photography for the first time, the work is both a technical tour-de-force and a massively ambitious project in which several sets are constructed on a scale typically only seen in film production. Each panoramic image is a combination of two moments in time, almost all of them captured weeks apart from the exact same camera position.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrandt first builds and lights a partial set, then waits for the animals that inhabit the region to enter the frame. Once captured on camera, the full set is built with the camera remaining fixed in place. The sets include bridge and highway construction sites, a petrol station, a bus station, and even a dead forest. Completing the scene with a huge cast drawn from local communities, Brandt then photographs the second sequence. The final large scale prints are a composite of the two intricately plotted elements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eViewed as a whole, the images vividly illustrate a world in which, overwhelmed by runaway human development, there is no longer space for animals to survive, and beg the question: what kind of world will we live in when stripped of its natural wonders?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhotographed on unprotected, inhabited Maasai community land, after the sets were removed and their elements recycled, no evidence of the images now remains in the landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597351403756,"sku":"9780500545140","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780500545140-nick-brandt-this-empty-world.jpg?v=1777949508"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/nick-brandt.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}