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Brilio.net/en - Animals have been banished from the land they once called home, but wildlife photographer Nick Brandt preserved their history in a black and white series of photographs that reminisce those photos that former house owners would leave on their walls.
Brandt newest project Inherit The Dust has stunningly captured the harsh effects of the so-called development by humans in places animals used to call home.
Brandt has been capturing the wildlife of east Africa for years. But sadly, the place where seeing family of elephants passing through your backyard wasnt so startling, is now tracing the pattern of Western countries.
The destruction of these animals, of these African places, is not happening in the past where we grew up, but in our own immediate present, said Brandt. Keep going at this pace, and the unique megafauna of Africa will be rapidly gone the way of the megafauna of America and Europe, which was wiped out by far fewer men many centuries ago.
In his project, as reported by Mashable, Brandt created life-sized portraits of animals he knows dearly for years and put them on large panels. His work of art, this time with a sense of bitterness, were placed in urban areas where the animal would have once lived if human development hadnt pushed them out.
The tension between development and conservation is very present and even intensifying to happen. Most people in Africa agreed that the Western nations trampled all over their own natural world many centuries ago for economic expansion. With a thought that many African nations never have a chance to develop their economic power, African people think now its their turn to grow. Why should they be impeded to have the comfortable, material lives that Westerners used to have?
Well, to an extent, its a reasonable argument. But at what cost?
Obviously, attempts to save and protect the nature and benefit of economics dont have to go separate ways. In fact, if we know how to play the game well, they would go hand in hand. Thats what environmentally conscious parties such as Brandt are trying to say.
The project resulted in a series of epic panoramas that are sure to strike a chord with everyone who sees them.
1. Once a green, comfortable home for a family of chimps
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2. Some animals are gone while others start to live
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3. Shady home of rhinos have turned into factories
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4. The giraffes paradise is completely ruined
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5. And sadly, it happens to be the Lions ex-kingdom as well
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6. A herd of zebras once ran and grazed freely in this very land
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7. Mighty elephants are just a memory
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8. Once a passage for elephants for decades
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9. Rhinos are forced to step aside
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10. Crew wrapping elephant panel at sunset, November 2014.
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All images copyright of Nick Brandt, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery.
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