Nick Brandt: Shared Fate
The exhibition “Nick Brandt: The Day May Break”, curated by Arianna Rinaldo at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, Italy, brings together for the first time all four chapters of the photographer’s project, confronting the human and ecological cost of the climate crisis.
Photographs by Nick Brandt
In images set in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Bolivia, human beings and rescued animals share the frame in meticulously staged portraits, after surviving droughts and floods that have devastated entire regions. In Fiji, people photographed underwater evoke communities threatened by rising seas, while in the Jordanian desert Nick Brandt works with Syrian refugee families living in prolonged displacement.
Together, the bodies of work form a bold reflection on survival, resilience, and the fragility of hope. The figures appear almost sculptural, hieratic, theatrical, suspended between vulnerability and agency. The project’s visual language remains consistent throughout the series, creating an intensity that draws the viewer in, and invites reflection on their own place within this unfolding scenario.
The exhibition “Nick Brandt. The Day May Break” is on view at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin from March 18 to September 6.
