Visualizing the impact of climate change: Nick Brandt – The Day May Break + SINK / RISE

September 27, 2024

Get closer to the people and animals affected by environmental degradation and destruction with Nick Brandt.

Northern white Rhino Najin next to a group of local people in the fog. — *Najin and people in Fog*

Note that app links work best on your smartphone with the Bloomberg Connects app downloaded.

The artist

Nick Brandt is an English photographer who uses his work to highlight climate change and its impact on people and the natural world.

Brandt studied painting and film in London, England before moving to California, USA, in 1992. During his time in California, he directed several music videos, including Michael Jackson’s Earth Song. While working on this music video, he fell in love with the animals of East Africa and became frustrated about the destruction of their environment.

Influenced by the reality of climate change, he began capturing the negative impact of human activities on earth to bring attention to the cause. And has continued to do so.

The exhibition

Located in an 18th-century townhouse in Petworth, Newlands House Gallery is one of the UK’s youngest leading art galleries. It’s the place to experience world-class modern and contemporary art in the South Downs.

From February 3 to May 29, 2024, the gallery presented Nick Brandt’s The Day May Break + SINK / RISE – an ongoing global series portraying people and animals affected by environmental degradation. The show featured work from chapters one and two, with chapter three SINK / RISE – highlighting rising global sea levels and its legacy – which was exhibited for the first time globally. You can still explore highlights from the exhibition in the Newlands House Gallery guide on the Bloomberg Connects app, under their Past Exhibitions.

The work

Here is a small selection of the awe-inspiring and action-provoking photographs from the exhibition. Each image has an audio description from the artist that can be heard through the app.

Chapter One, Zimbabwe and Kenya 2020

Local couple from Kenya holding a baby with a white rhino in the background in the fog — *Alice, Stanley and Najin*

Local Kenyan woman holding men with an elephant in the background in the fog — *Fatuma, Ali and Bupa*

Chapter Two, Bolivia 2022

Bolivian woman sitting down in front of puma looking back — *Juana and Nayra*

Bolivian woman sitting next to rescued sloth — *Ruth and Zosa*

Chapter Three SINK / RISE, Fiji 2023

Man and father underwater — *Ben and his Father Viti*

Woman sitting at a table underwater in Fiji — *Serafina at Table*

Nick Brandt continues The Day May Break series with chapter four: The Echo of our Voices, photographed in Jordan, the second most water-scarce country in the world.

To explore more work from the exhibition, download Bloomberg Connects and open the Newlands House Gallery guide today.