Across the Ravaged Land

Nick Brandt

© Nick Brandt, Elephant on Bare Earth, Amboseli, 2011. Courtesy of the Artist and Hasted Kraeutler, NYC.

© Nick Brandt, Lion In The Shaft of Light, Maasai Mara, 2012. Courtesy of the Artist and Hasted Kraeutler, NYC.

© Nick Brandt, Elephant Mother with Baby at Leg, Amboseli, 2012. Courtesy of the Artist and Hasted Kraeutler, NYC.

© Nick Brandt, Ranger with Tusks of Killed Elephant, Amboseli, 2011. Courtesy of the Artist and Hasted Kraeutler, NYC.

© Nick Brandt, Lion Roar, Maasai Mara, 2012. Courtesy of the Artist and Hasted Kraeutler, NYC.

It was while directing "Earth Song", a music video for Jackson in Tanzania, in 1995 that Brandt fell in love with the animals and land of East Africa. Over the next few years, frustrated that he could not capture on film his feelings about and love for animals, he realized there was a way to achieve this through photography, in a way that he felt no-one had really done before.