The Day May Break

April 10, 2024 6:55 AM

Nick Brandt is a photographer working with themes of climate apocalypse. Sink / Rise is chapter 3 of his series The Day May Break.
posted by mygothlaundry (10 comments total)

I couldn't get the Chapter One / Chapter Two links above to work, it might be that they don't work from other referrers? I managed to get to them from the Photographs pane here.

Anyway yeah this guy's work is striking and unsettling. Thanks for the share mygothlaundry.

edit: wow even the higher link seems to not work, I can't even seem to link to the main page at this point. Still, worth a look if you can navigate there from the home page.
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 8:03 AM on April 10

Thanks for this. Posting links for Chapter One and Chapter Two
posted by reality_is_benign at 8:10 AM on April 10

(I think the link problem may depend on browser also, seems to work better in Safari than Firefox for me. Sorry for the noise if it's mostly me having the issue.)
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 8:19 AM on April 10

These are interesting photos. Quite thought provoking.

And real. Except for everybody being dead and drowned, of course.
posted by BlueHorse at 8:20 AM on April 10

Wow, the Chapter One and Chapter Two links are broken for me now too. :( I am so sorry. I created the post in Safari on my iPad this morning but right now on a PC they're not working. Try these?

Chapter One
Chapter Two
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:08 AM on April 10

Looks like they won't allow links. I'll ask the mods to delete those links. There is a link in the original article to his site so they're findable through that.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:09 AM on April 10

These photos are beguiling. You say to yourself--well, if you're me, you say to yourself, should we really be using beautiful photos to talk about climate change? And then you just stare and stare for a while and realize that Brandt is capturing, in Sink/Rise, what may be the moment prior to suffocation--the last possible moment you could pretend things are normal. I go back over and over to "Ben on Sofa"--he's waiting for someone, maybe, or he's thinking--and nothing on his face shows the absolute peril he is in. Or does it?
posted by mittens at 9:22 AM on April 10

I'd love to see them but none of the links work in FireFox or Chrome for me...
posted by tiny frying pan at 8:04 AM on April 11

The mods deleted those two nonworking links. The main link to Colossal should work for you? It works in every browser I have tried. There are working links in that article to the rest of the photos; I wish I could have put them here as well because they are well worth seeing.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:45 AM on April 11

Ah got it, thank you, I missed it!
posted by tiny frying pan at 9:54 AM on April 11