It was not, however, the vista that took his breath away, but instead the evidence of what was missing, lost, and destroyed: " When I put them back, I wanted to deepen this contrast of life and death, with dead animals but in positions that corresponded to when they were alive.As British photographer Nick Brandt traveled through East Africa, he often found himself breathless at the scenes in front of him. "There was no way to move a wing or turn their heads if they were looking for a better picture." They were like rocks, so what we did was place them on branches or stones as we were finding them. He was struck by how the corpses of the animals were preserved, because details of the language of a bat or its fur could still be appreciated, although his favorite finding was that of osprey, the photographer explained via email to The. Reddish, by the bacteria and algae that live in it, this salt lake can reach temperatures of up to 60 degrees Celsius, according to New Scientist. "The water has a very high density of natron and salt, so high that in a few seconds the ink of my Kodak film boxes caused the creatures to be calcified, perfectly preserved ".īeyond serving as a breeding area for a flamenco type (dwarf flamingo) and home for a certain type of algae, Lake Natron is an inhospitable place for life. "The causes of death are unknown, but it seems that the extremely reflective surface of the lake confused them and made them crash into the lake," says Brandt in his new album Across the Ravaged Land.
Scattered on the earth, as if they were statues, there were corpses of calcified animals.
When he arrived on the shore of Lake Natron in Tanzania, photographer Nick Brandt found a chilling landscape.
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