Nick Brandt: The Day May Break

尼克·布兰特（Nick Brandt）：一天可能会休息

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生存与希望的肖像：著名摄影师尼克-勃兰特的新系列作品

The Day May Break于 2020 年底在津巴布韦和肯尼亚拍摄，是著名摄影师尼克-布兰特（Nick Brandt）全球系列作品的一部分，描绘了受到环境退化和破坏影响的人类和动物。

这些照片中的人们都受到气候变化的影响，因飓风和长年干旱而流离失所。在五个保护区拍摄的动物都是被拯救的动物，它们永远不可能被重新野化。因此，人类陌生人可以安全地接近它们，在同一画面中如此近距离地拍摄它们。拍摄现场的大雾是统一的视觉主题，传达出一种不断加剧的边缘感，一个曾经可辨认的世界如今正从视野中消逝。然而，尽管各自都失去了生命，但这些人和动物都活了下来，这就蕴含着可能性和希望。

尼克-布兰特（生于 1964 年）曾在伦敦圣马丁学院学习电影和绘画。2001 年，他转向摄影创作，创作了三部曲《在这片土地上》、《阴影落下》和《穿越蹂躏的土地》。他最近的作品有《继承尘土》（2016 年）和《这个空荡荡的世界》（2019 年）。他现居南加州。

"尼克-布兰特是一位艺术家，也是一位见证者，他抓住了凄凉绝望的命运，并通过某种神秘的炼金术，将这些命运转化为一种凄美而痛苦的姿态。我已经很久没有体验过由一位欧美裔艺术家创作的非洲裔当代摄影作品了，而且还是如此温柔、人性和华丽的作品"。《尘埃》和《蜻蜓之海》的作者伊冯娜-阿迪阿姆布-奥沃尔为《可能破晓》撰写的前言。

"尼克-勃兰特在《The Day May Break》一书中通过这些充满力量而又温情的肖像作品，揭示了环境对这个星球上的生命--人类和动物--所造成的威胁。这种水准的艺术在挑战和吸引观众参与环境对话方面具有独特的地位"。爱尔兰前总统、联合国人权和气候变化事务高级专员、"长者 "组织主席玛丽-罗宾逊。

Portraits of survival and hope: a new series from acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt

Photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, The Day May Break is the first part of a global series by acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt, portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.

The people in these photographs were all affected by climate change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts. Photographed at five sanctuaries, the animals were rescues that can never be rewilded. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, photographed so close to them, within the same frame. The fog on location is the unifying visual motif, conveying the sense of an ever-increasing limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading from view. However, despite their respective losses, these people and animals have survived, and therein lies possibility and hope.

Nick Brandt (born 1964) studied film and painting at St Martin’s College in London. He turned to photography in 2001 with his trilogy On This Earth, A Shadow Falls and Across the Ravaged Land. His more recent books are Inherit the Dust (2016) and This Empty World (2019). He lives in Southern California.

"Nick Brandt is an artist and witness who seizes bleak and desperate fates, and by some mystery and alchemy, transmutes these into a gesture of poignant and painful beauty. It has been an eon, and then some, since I experienced contemporary photographs of people of African roots created by a person of Euro-American origin, that were this tender, human and gorgeous." –Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, author of Dust and The Dragonfly Sea, from the foreword to The Day May Break.

"A landmark body of work by one of photography’s great environmental champions. Showing how deeply our fates are intertwined, Brandt portrays people and animals together, causing us to reflect on the real-life consequences of climate change. Channeling his outrage into quiet determination, the result is a portrait of us all, at a critical moment in the Anthropocene.” –Phillip Prodger, curator, author, photography historian, former Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

"The environmental threat to life on this planet―both human and animal―is realized by Nick Brandt in The Day May Break to devastating effect in these powerful yet tender portraits. Art of this caliber is in a unique position to challenge and engage audiences in environmental conversation.” –Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Climate Change, Chair of The Elders.

 Guardian