In 2001, Nick Brandt embarked on an ambitious photographic project, a trilogy memorializing the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. Focusing on some of the worlds last great populations of large mammals elephants, giraffes, lions, gorillas and their kin he created two of the new centurys most influential photographic series : On This Earth (2005), A Shadow Falls (2009) and Accross the Ravaged Land (2011-2012). His iconic portraits of these majestic animals express an empathy usually reserved for human subjects. The magisterial On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Accross the Ravaged land collects the most memorable images from Brandts first three series.