Der Photograph
Nick Brandt hat während seiner Suche nach Motiven am Natronsee in Tansania Tierkadaver gefunden, die an Land gespült und aufgrund des hohen Soda- und Natrongehalts des Sees für die Ewigkeit konserviert worden waren.
"I unexpectedly found the creatures – all manner of birds and bats – washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.
I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death."
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| (c) Nick Brandt |
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| (c) Nick Brandt |
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| (c) Nick Brandt |
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| (c) Nick Brandt |
