NICK BRANDT: THE DAY MAY BREAK
ATLAS is delighted to announce the release of Nick Brandt’s new series, The Day May Break.
A selection of works will preview at this year’s Photo London, opening at Somerset House on the 8th September. A full exhibition of the series opens at the gallery on Dorset Street, London, on 16th September.
This new collection, 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 photographs 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. As a result, they are habituated, and so it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, and photographed in the same frame at the same time.
The fog is the unifying visual. We increasingly find ourselves in a kind of limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading from view. Created by fog machines on location, the fog is also an echo of the suffocating smoke from the wildfires, driven by climate change, devastating so much of the planet.
However, in spite of their loss, these people and animals are the survivors. And therein lies possibility and hope.
Halima, Abdul and Frida, Kenya, 2020
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Alice, Stanley and Najin, Kenya, 2020
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Bupa and People in Fog, Kenya, 2020
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Chipangara Family and Mak, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Clementia, John & Mak, Zimbabwe 2020
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Fatuma, Ali & Bupa, Kenya 2020
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Githui & Kimanjo, Kenya, 2020
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Githui on Ground and Najin, Kenya, 2020
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Harriet and People in Fog, Zimbabwe 2020
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Githui & Najin by Tree, Kenya 2020
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Helen and Sky, Zimbabwe 2020
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James and Fatu, Kenya, 2020
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James, Peter and Najin, Kenya, 2020
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James with Tawa beyond, Kenya, 2020
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Richard and Sky, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Kuda and Sky I, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Kuda and Sky II, Zimbabwe, 2020
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James, Peter, Najin and Tawa, Kenya, 2020
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Luckness, Winnie and Kura, Zimbabwe 2020
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Matthew and Mak at Dusk, Zimbabwe 2020
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Luckness and Marimba, Zimbabwe, 2020
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James and Najin, Kenya 2020
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Matthew and Mak, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Matthew on Termite Mound and Mak, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Monica and Big Foot, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Moraa and Son and Frida, Kenya, 2020
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Najin and People in Fog, Kenya, 2020
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Nuria, Zara and Najin, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Patrick and Harriet on Bed, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Regina and Jack, Levi and Diesel, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Richard and Diesel, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Richard and Okra, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Robert and Nyaguthii and Bupa, Kenya, 2020
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Shepherd and Matagat, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Patrick and Harriet on Ground, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Silva and Wood Owl, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Thomas and Emma, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Sofia, her father Mohammed and Fatu, Kenya, 2020
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Teresa, Samuel and Fatu, Kenya, 2020
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Teresa and Najin, Kenya, 2020
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Thomas and Vincent, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Zainab, her mother Miriam, and Frida, Kenya, 2020
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Zainab, her mother Miriam, and Najin, Kenya, 2020
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Levi and Diesel in Tobacco Factory, Zimbabwe 2020
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Mak in Trees, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Fatu in Trees, Kenya, 2020
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Bupa, Kenya, 2020
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Moraa and Son, Kenya, 2020
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Zainab, Kenya, 2020
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Sofia and her father Mohammed, Kenya, 2020
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Sisters, Shylene and Lene, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Flamingo Triptych, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Flamingos I, Zimbabwe
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Flamingos II, Zimbabwe
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Flamingos III, Zimbabwe
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Harriet, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Levi and Diesel, Zimbabwe, 2020
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Helen, Zimbabwe 2020
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