Inherit The Dust Analysis

The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present photographer Nick Brandt's newly released body of work, Inherit The Dust. The exhibition consists of large scale panoramas and coincides with the release of Brandt's upcoming publication of the same title. For over ten years, Brandt had been photographing in East Africa, concluding three years ago with the photographic trilogy On The Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across The Ravaged Land. The highly acclaimed series became an elegy of sorts, an embodiment of the photographer's ongoing efforts to capture the rapidly vanishing natural world and changing landscape of East Africa.

In Inherit The Dust, Brandt has re-envisioned his animal portraits, installing them as life-size panels in the environments that the
Of course, it's only when you know what was there before that the loss is more keenly felt: the herds of elephants, giraffes and gazelles that not so long ago quietly moved across the plains and amongst the acacia trees, the heart-stopping sound of lions roaring on the still air at dusk and dawn. All deathly silent now."

The epic panoramas featured in Inherit The Dust dramatically illustrate what once was, and is now in danger of becoming a distant past. The animals have become ghosts in their former landscapes. The scenes expose a monumental and complex problem that not only includes the issue of illegal poaching, but also encompasses human expansion, overpopulation, and the environmental and social stresses of economic development. The series serves as a call to action, a startling realization of the social and environmental price of human