SINK / RISE.

The Day May Break, Chapter Three.

Photographs by Nick Brandt. Text by Zoë Lescaze. Design by Julia Wagner.

Hatje Cantz, 2024. English, 120 pp., 60 illustrations, 12¼x13¼".

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Haunting meditations on the devastation wrought by rising sea levels in the South Pacific.

SINK / RISE is the third chapter of The Day May Break, Nick Brandt’s ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. This third chapter focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by climate change and serves as a stark reminder of the looming reality many island nations face. The local people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, symbolize the many people who stand to lose their homes, land and livelihoods in the coming decades as the water rises.

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"Faced with a seemingly impossible task, Nick Brandt has created a profoundly original body of work, one that represents an entirely new approach to climate-conscious photography….

Although they are several meters below the surface, the subjects of Brandt’s mesmerizing photographs do not float or swim. Incredibly, they sit on sofas, stand on chairs, use seesaws, and pose in ways they might on land. The effect is otherworldly, as though the familiar laws of physics have stalled in this strange, liminal zone between land and sea.

Sit with these photographs and the others in the series, and the subjects’ expressions will change like water. Stoicism becomes resignation. Frustration becomes resolve. In their pensive faces, we can read tenderness, grief, and perseverance. Intimate and spare as these portraits are, the effect is expansive.

Despite the surreal, semi-theatrical settings in which these portraits occur, Brandt’s images are direct, uncluttered, and free from distractions. This combination of ambitious fantasy and exquisite restraint is a signature of Brandt’s work rarely seen elsewhere.

The photographs comprising SINK / RISE are remarkable in their ability to be simultaneously approachable and enigmatic, to be political and inclusive. They invite us to linger, to look harder, and to go deeper. With every return, there is something new to discover— within the images or within us.

With the portraits in SINK / RISE, Brandt gives us a vital means of considering what we all stand to lose.” — Zoe Lescaze

Limited Editions come in their own folio, in editions of 50 each, signed and numbered on a label for the back of the print. Prints are 8.7 x 11.6 inches (22x29.5 cm). Printed on Hahnemühle Museum Etching archival paper.

LTD-CLIFF Image

Petero By Cliff, Fiji, 2023

LTD-TABLE Image

Serafina At Table, Fiji, 2023

Nick Brandt is represented by photo-eye Gallery. See his work here.

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