Nick Brandt. Rakan Sisters, Jordan, 2024. Limited Edition.
Rakan Sisters, Jordan, 2024
20x26.6 inch image size on 24 x 30 inch on paper
Edition of 8
Archival Pigment Prints on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta Satin 300gsm.
With signed and numbered label.
From the series THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES: The Day May Break, Chapter Four, photographed in Jordan in 2024.
Jordan is considered the second most water-scarce country in the world. The photographs feature refugee families, who fled the war in Syria, now living in Jordan. Living lives of continuous displacement largely due to climate change, they are forced to move their homes up to several times a year, moving to where there is available agricultural work, to wherever there has been sufficient rainfall to enable crops to grow.
The photographs were taken in the deserts of southern Jordan. The stacks of boxes that the families sit and stand together on aim skyward - a verticality implying a sense of strength or defiance - and provide pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unnoticed. Not generals or politicians of history, but human beings equally worthy of their place in the world.
Nick Brandt’s photographs focus on the impact of environmental destruction and climate breakdown, for both some of the most vulnerable people and for the animal and natural world.
Brandt has had solo gallery and museum shows around the world, including New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Paris and Los Angeles.
Born and raised in London, where he originally studied Painting and Film, Brandt now lives in the southern Californian mountains.
In 2010, Brandt co-founded Big Life Foundation, a non-profit in Kenya/ Tanzania that employ more than 350 local rangers protecting 1.6 million acres of the Amboseli/Kilimanjaro ecosystem.
Learn more about Nick Brandt.
