Amazing pictures of Nick Brandt

“I unexpectedly found the creatures – all manner of birds and bats – washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry. I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death.”  ~ Nick Brandt 

www.nickbrandt.com

Schermafbeelding 2014-05-30 om 14.44.23 Schermafbeelding 2014-05-30 om 14.44.34 Schermafbeelding 2014-05-30 om 14.44.45 Schermafbeelding 2014-05-30 om 14.44.58 Schermafbeelding 2014-05-30 om 14.45.08

 

(Visited 48 times, 1 visits today)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

© 2024 Herman Huys . Powered by WordPress. Theme by Viva Themes.