Nick Brandt has been taking photographs in East Africa since 2000. His method is to use medium format film, and to get as close to the animal as possible - he doesn't use telephoto lens in order to see the animal in the expanse of its environment.
East Africa's bush is an iconic and magical world, and represents a kind of wild that most children will not know in their lifetime. I propose the use of photography, especially such riveting and romantic images as these, to grasp the attention of students. Free-writing about these unique images and then further studying the greater, more tragic accounts of the animal's impending decline is a alluring way of bringing disciplines together.
Brandt writes; "They're are my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing."
See more of his photos here.
East Africa's bush is an iconic and magical world, and represents a kind of wild that most children will not know in their lifetime. I propose the use of photography, especially such riveting and romantic images as these, to grasp the attention of students. Free-writing about these unique images and then further studying the greater, more tragic accounts of the animal's impending decline is a alluring way of bringing disciplines together.
Brandt writes; "They're are my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing."
See more of his photos here.
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