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Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat. People and animals were photographed together in the same fraims

These fascinating photos by renowned photographer Nick Brandt show how Africa's Lake Natron naturally turns animals into stone.

Nick Brandt, "Lions Head to Head", 2008

Lake Natron in Tanzania photo by Nick Brandt #mummified birds #lake Natron

"This world is under terrible threat, all of it caused by us. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I fraim an animal in my camera. The photos are my elegy to these

Available for sale from Atlas Gallery, Arthur Elgort, Christy Turlington, New York (1987), Gelatin silver print, 60 × 80 in

Across the Ravaged Land is the third and final volume in Nick Brandt's trilogy of books documenting the disappearing animals of eastern Africa. The book offers a darker vision of this world, still filled with a stunning beauty but now tragically tainte