The Day May Break is an ongoing global series by photographer Nick Brandt, in which he portrays people and animals that have been impacted by environmental destruction and climate breakdown.
The creatures sharing the frame are connected by a common fate, equally helpless and without a voice in the face of a disappearing world. Connected from time immemorial, yet forever estranged, they are caught in the fog of war against our own existence.
I have never seen this terrestrial condition of inseparable entanglement and otherness so clearly expressed, and it touches me to the core. The Earth is not ours to command; we have to protect the web of life for those yet to join it.
Visit the website to view the four chapters in their entirety.
The following is a selection of Chapter I & II of this ongoing series:
Chapter I was photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in 2020
Chapter II was photographed in Bolivia in 2022
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- Halima, Abdul and Frida, Kenya
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- Harriet and People in Fog, Zimbabwe
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- Richard and Okra, Zimbabwe
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- Alice, Stanley and Najin, Kenya
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- Fatuma, Ali & Bupa, Kenya
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- Richard and Grace, Zimbabwe
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- Najin and People in Fog, Kenya
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- Thomas and Vincent, Zimbabwe
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- Moraa and son and Frida, Kenya, 2020
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- James, Peter and Najin, Kenya
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- John and Mak, Zimbabwe
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- Zainab with Mother Miriam and Najin, Kenya
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- Lucio and Chascas, Bolivia, 2022
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- Carmen and Zosa II, Bolivia, 2022
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- Jame with People in Fog, Bolivia, 2022
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- Ruth and Zosa, Bolivia, 2022
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- Lucio and Tarkus, Bolivia, 2022
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- Juana and Nayra, Bolivia, 2022
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- Lineth and Kini, Bolivia, 2022
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- Juana and Hernak, Bolivia, 2022
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- Florentino and Echo, Bolivia, 2022
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- Lineth and Hob, Bolivia, 2022
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- Hisca and People in Fog, Bolivia, 2022
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- Juana and Apthapi, Bolivia, 2022
Making of ‘The Day May Break’
This glimpse behind the scenes confirms that all subjects were actually photographed together and not montaged afterwards
