Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt
In Inherit the Dust (2014), unreleased portraits of animals taken over prior years were printed life-size and placed in locations where animals such as these used to roam but, as a result of human impact and development, no longer do.
In all but a few of the final photographs, the animals within the panels are effectively invisible to the people going about their lives. The animals have been reduced to ghosts in these blasted landscapes.Read more
The damnation of animal life, the debasement of human life, the destructive connection between the two: It is not just the animals who are the victims of environmental devastation, but also the humans now inhabiting these landscapes.
It’s a cliché, but we must act urgently. If we continue to do nothing, future generations will be inheriting the sad remnants of a once-vibrant living planet. They will be inheriting dust.
