Nick Brandt began to focus on photography in 1995 after a visit to Tanzania. While in Tanzania to direct footage for the video for Michael Jackson's song Earth Song, his eyes were opened to the animals of the savannah. Since then, Brandt has established himself as a photographer with several major exhibitions shown around the world. In Sweden, he has had three exhibitions at Fotografiska in Stockholm, including On this earth a shadow falls.

In his large-scale photo projects, Brandt has often chosen to show in different ways the negative impact of humans on environments and wildlife. He tries to show the acute problems that we have created for both animals and humans and start the discussion for us to act on climate change and the sharp decline in biodiversity.

The Day May Break is his latest major ongoing project where his images so far are from Kenya, Zimbabwe and Bolivia. The images are divided into chapters, with chapter two being from Bolivia and taken in 2022. They are photos of people and animals in the same images, at the same time - beautiful but also with a strong visual message.

Nick Brandt has a strong commitment to people and nature and is co-founder of the Big Life Foundation, which helps to monitor and conserve wildlife in a 1.6 million hectare area in Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro in East Africa. For Nick, it is also a given to reduce the climate impact that he himself causes, especially through travel. For the latest sub-project in Bolivia, Nick Brandt has therefore chosen to finance, through ZeroMission, a reforestation project in part of the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia.

The project, which is certified by Plan Vivo, is designed for tree planting according to the agroforestry model on about 5000 hectares. The land is owned by a large number of small farmers and about 2000 of these participate in the project to create long-term sustainable afforestation while providing the opportunity for small farmers to receive side income from planting citrus, coffee and corn. Over 1000 hectares are also a nature conservation area where the forest will be preserved.

The project in Bolivia is in our project portfolio, read more about it here.

You can read more about Nick Brandt and his various photo projects here.

You can read more about the Big Life Foundation here.

Nick Brandt's own words on the Bolivia photo suite: