The lake is chock full of thousands more well-preserved carcasses - it's so alkaline, creatures that die and fall in don't decompose and wither, they simply get pickled. "I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in 'living' positions, bringing them back to 'life.'"īrandt's photographs are on display at the Hasted Kraeutler Gallery in New York City and will be published in a photo anthology by Abrams Books.īrandt's photographs have been making their way around the Web, but he's just scratched the surface. "I unexpectedly found the creatures - all manner of birds and bats - washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania," Brandt told NBC News in an email. Lately, it's earned a reputation for washing up the bodies of small animals on its shores, each wrapped in a delicate crusty shroud.īrandt was captivated by startlingly well-preserved bodies of bats, flamingos, eagles and swallows, and created a whole series of photographs to document the eerie phenomenon. Natron is usually a toasty 80 degrees Fahrenheit and blood-red from bacteria, the only living things that can survive its deadly alkalinity. Wildlife photographer Nick Brandt used the corpses littering the Tanzanian lake shores as posed models for a haunting new series of photographs. The lake's steeply alkaline waters are a graveyard for thousands of small birds. The long-legged waterfowl may flourish, but to any other living creature, Lake Natron is hell on earth. The Rift Valley's Lake Natron is the chosen mating ground of the endangered lesser flamingo. The bird mummies of Natron: Lake's waters petrify animals that fall in Koleksi foto terbaru Brandt termuat dalam bukunya Across The Ravaged Land yang diterbitkan oleh Abrams Books.
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