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Across the Ravaged Land,
Nick Brandt s Lioness with Cub Feeding, Masai Mara shows two lionesses looking outward, fiercely protective of their cubs. Brandt’s image celebrates the elegance of the mother lion who is statuesque as she feeds her cub. Brandt, who works exclusively in East Africa, has spent nearly 20 years photographing disappearing animal populations using a medium-format camera. Unlike his contemporaries who favor telephoto or zoom lenses, Brandt shoots his subjects from close range, requiring hours of observation and a measure of trust.
Nick Brandt (British, b. 1966) studied Film and Painting from the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London. His close range, black and white images of African wildlife and landscape have garnered him international recognition and is a celebrated activist. Brandt co-founded the Big Life Foundation in 2010, which enforces anti-poaching projects in East Africa. He has exhibited his photography in major solo exhibitio
Mailboxes and Roses
When I got to my mailbox at the end of my daily walk down the mail-path, there it lay, bang in the wet grass by the road. “Rats,” I thought, “somebody’s bumped into it and knocked it down.” But the mail lady told the postmaster that it had come away in her hands, the post rotted off flush with the ground. This was a special post that I’d put up myself, sturdy and braced, and it had lasted 15 of the 40 years the mailbox has been there. But I hadn’t sealed it in concrete, and the ever-present rain and rot finally got to it below the grass line.