Nick Brandt

Known for: black-and-white wildlife and conservation photography in East Africa

Nick Brandt began photographing the animals of East Africa in the late 1990s with a medium format camera and natural light, producing black-and-white portraits of individual lions, elephants, and chimpanzees that emphasized their individuality. His trilogy On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across the Ravaged Land (published between 2005 and 2013) documents both the animals and the accelerating loss of their habitat. He co-founded the conservation organization Big Life Foundation in 2010.