Africa

         Nick Brandt's photography is stunning. I find it wonderful that he spends time and effort to put the soul of the animals into each photo. He doesn't use a telephoto lens, so he has to get up close himself, which is fantastic and absolutely breathtaking if you think about it. 

     

This photo is my favorite because it shows the Lion standing above the  rest of  the land, and how he is looking across it. The rule of thirds is definitely evident here because he is standing in one third of the photo, facing the other two.Brandt photographs on medium-format black and white film without telephoto or zoom lenses, because that isn't how you would capture a portrait of a human. Brandt embarked on his photographic journey to show the world the vanishing wildlife population of east-africa. He intends to conserve african wildlife with the Big Life Foundation. "I'm not interested in creating work that is simply documentary or filled with action and drama, which has been the norm in the photography of animals in the wild. What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being. In the state of Being before they are no longer are. Before, in the wild at least, they cease to exist. This world is under terrible threat, all of it caused by us. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera. The photos are my elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."