The Echo of Our Voices Nick Brandt
ONLINE EXHIBITION
We are delighted to announce the release of Nick Brandt’s new chapter from his ongoing series The Day May Break.
The Echo of Our Voices is the fourth Chapter of The Day May Break. It was photographed this year in Jordan, considered the second most water-scarce country in the world.
The photographs feature mostly rural Syrian refugee families living there that have been seriously impacted by the effects of climate change. 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.
This chapter is different to the first three chapters, both visually and emotionally: a show of connection and strength in the face of adversity, that when all else is lost you still have each other.
The stacks of boxes that the families sit and stand together on aim skyward a verticality implying more sense of strength or defiance – and provide pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unheard.
