Nick Brandt The Day May Break Chapter I & II — DOP

Nick Brandt
The Day May Break
Chapter I & II

December 30 2024

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

Making of ‘The Day May Break’
This glimpse behind the scenes confirms that all subjects were actually photographed together and not montaged afterwards

Rajni Perera
(M)otherworlds

Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.

Problema
Who are we in the 21st Century?

A cinematic interpretation of this world’s largest round table gathering, Problema is a visually imaginative, thought-provoking invitation to a world of global dilemmas.

Dying to Know
The Mystical World

This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.

Benoit Paillé
Rainbow Gatherings

Lately I also rediscovered the wholesome experience of being with with a group of strangers who share an intention of love & growth.

Huxley’s Legacy
The art of living, loving and dying

At the time when I picked the name The Door Of Perception I didn’t know much about Aldous Huxley and his teachings — because that’s what his writings are, rather than novels.

Jean Liedloff
The Continuum concept

This book is a must for all future parents. Besides that they don’t need to learn much.

Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods

“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…

Hasui Kawase
The Quality of Light

Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase

Jonathan McCabe
Generative Flow

I never liked generative art. Until I found Jonathan McCabe. He changed that in an instant.

Marjorie Cameron
Songs for the Witch Woman

Cameron was an American artist, poet, actress, and occultist who emerged as a key figure in the California counterculture movement in the 1950s and 60s.

Hirō Isono
Into the Depths of the Sacred Forest

There is a small group of painters who are able to invoke nature’s serene magic. Isono is one of them and his love for the forest is very tangible.

De Es Schwertberger
Heavy Light

Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.

Karl Blossfeldt
Urformen der Kunst

Karl Blossfeldt was an attentive observers of nature, a teacher of contemplation.

Sabin Bălaşa
Dreams of Eternal Blue

Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.

The Net
The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet

Critical thinking in regard to technology isn’t overworked these days and it can’t hurt to reconsider our current course and if it is leading us towards a prosperous future.

Lebensreform
Monte Verità

I want to tell you about the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century. The problems back then were the same like today.

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Finally, the story of the greatest science fiction epic never made has finally been told. Jodorowsky’s Dune is a new documentary about that beautiful, crazy-ambitious, disaster of an adaptation.

Inka Essenhigh
Other Worlds Are Possible

The boundaries between the real and the imagined dissolve, vegetal phenomena slip into the guise of human dramas, and we can sense the magical entanglement of all realms of experience …

Phillip Stearns
High Voltage Image Making

The series investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film.

Metamorphosis
Chaos, Creativity and Imagination

A trialogue on chaos and the world soul, featuring Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham – three brilliant minds sharing their views on life and the structure of reality.