Friday, January 25, 2019

This Empty World


Photo: ©Nick Brandt

My initial reaction upon seeing This Empty World by Nick Brandt stopped at the word "staged." Why would someone have to stage photos using wildlife to get their point across... Stupid!

No- I was. And that became clearly evident as soon as I actually started looking at these masterfully surreal photos! These are pictures that make you, force you to think of the current state of big game wildlife and their future role and existence in our rapidly devolving planet. Just what is the state of our relationship with these wondrous creatures as we encroach upon and confiscate their land, decimate them for their body parts and eventually erase all evidence of their thousands of years of existence? Most of us somehow seem to think that they are the only ones that stand to lose...

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