by Jerome D. Introduction Nick Brandt (b. 1964, London) is one of the most distinctive and morally urgent photographers working today — a former music video director who walked away from a successful commercial career to spend two decades documenting the vanishing wildlife and landscapes of East Africa, and who has since turned his lens on the human communities most devastated by climate breakdown around the world. He studied painting and film at Saint Martin's School of Art in London before moving to California in 1992 to direct music videos. His commercial work was significant: he directed Michael Jackson's "Earth Song" and "Stranger in Moscow" , Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" , Moby's "Porcelain" , and videos for Jewel and XTC. It was while directing "Earth Song" in Tanzania in 1995 that his relationship with East Africa — and with its animals — began. By 2001, frustrated that film and commercial...
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange