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July 2025

The Day May Break: Nick Brandt’s monumental global project visualizes the global injustices and threats of climate change and environmental degradation 
The ongoing project continues to exhibit around the world with an upcoming book launch and solo gallery and museum exhibitions in Europe this autumn

Nick Brandt, The Day May Break: Chapters One – Four

Europe – Photographer Nick Brandt presents The Day May Break, an ongoing project exploring the human and environmental toll of climate change around the world, in multiple new exhibitions around Europe and a new book release this autumn on the heels of major exhibitions earlier this year.

The Day May Break is a global series featuring humans and animals impacted by climate change and environmental degradation, depicting the strength and resilience of those who are facing such challenges. It currently consists of four chapters, each depicting a different part of the world. 

In September 2025, Hangar Art Center in Brussels, Belgium, presents a two floor exhibition of The Day May Break, Chapters One-Three, with a preview of the fourth chapter, The Echo of Our Voices.

This coincides with the book release of The Echo of Our Voices (published by Skira Editore), presenting photographs of this powerful series with a foreword by Syrian novelist Samar Yazbek and an introduction by curator Arianna Rinaldo. 

“Nick Brandt is a photographer whose camera aims to convey the rumblings of an uncertain future. Traveling across continents and getting to know different communities, Brandt’s objective as an artist is to strikingly reflect the reality of climate change by working with those who have been most affected by its rapid escalation…an artist who not only aims to capture the magnificence of nature and its inhabitants, but one who is able to facilitate a story of the Earth as well. His work is poetic, focused on bridging the different iterations of an increasingly communal narrative through metaphor and exhibition.” – Carlota Gamboa, Whitehot Magazine

The Day May Break balances epic scope with an intimate portrayal of the lives and habitats of people and animals that are currently under-recognized and under-represented. 

“Spread across the planet, there is a common link between the countries in which I have photographed this series so far: They are all among the countries that are the least responsible for climate breakdown. Their global carbon emissions have been tiny compared to industrial nations. Yet, like so many other poorer countries in the world, they are disproportionately harmed by its effects. The grim irony is that many people in these countries are the most vulnerable to the calamitous consequences of the industrial world’s ways.” – Nick Brandt.

The series has been exhibiting internationally since earlier this year, including a solo exhibition with Gilman Contemporary at AIPAD Photography Fair in New York, a current museum exhibition at Cankarjev Dom in Llubljana, Slovenia, and elsewhere, as well as making headlines in numerous major press features.

The Echo of Our Voices was partly funded by Gallerie d’Italia Museum, Turin. A major exhibition of all four chapters of The Day May Break will open there in March 2026.

The Day May Break, exhibition at Cankarjev Dom Culture Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Chapter One was photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya, depicting people who have been affected by climate change, from their homes being destroyed by cyclones to farmers displaced by years-long droughts. The photographs were taken at five sanctuaries and conservancies, where the animals are almost all long-term rescues from the likes of poaching and habit destruction. The animals can never be re-released back into the wild. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, photographed together in the same frame and at the same time. The fog is a unifying visual, symbolic of a once-recognizable natural now rapidly fading from view and an echo of smoke from wildfires intensified by climate change. 

Chapter Two was photographed in Bolivia at the Senda Verde Wildlife Sanctuary. The people in the photographs have all been badly impacted by climate change in the form of extreme floods and droughts that destroyed their homes and land. The animals are all rescues as a result of wildlife trafficking and habitat destruction. Similar to the previous chapter, these animals were able to be safely photographed together with humans at the same time with the same symbolic fog echoing the fading natural world. 

Chapter Three: Sink / Rise focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The people in these photographs, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of Fiji, are representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as sea levels rise at a faster rate than the global average. Everyone and everything was shot in-camera underwater. The photograph Serafina at Table from this series won the BNP Paribas Award at the Milan Art Fair earlier this year.  

Chapter Four: The Echo of Our Voices takes place in Jordan, one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. It features rural Syrian refugee families currently living there, whose lives have been seriously impacted by droughts intensified due to climate change. Living lives of continuous displacement, they are forced to move their homes up to several times a year to where there is available agricultural work, which is precariously dependent on sufficient rainfall to enable crops to grow. The photographs depict the families as “human islands” in the southern Jordanian deserts to highlight their resilience, connection and strength in the face of adversity. The stacks of boxes upon which the families sit and stand provide pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unheard. Not generals or politicians, but human beings frequently more worthy of their place in the world.

Rakan Sisters, Jordan, 2024, from The Echo of Our Voices

Exhibition Details

Cankarjev Dom Culture Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
March 31 – September 7 2025
The Day May Break, Chapters One To Three solo museum exhibition 

Hangar Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
September 19 – December 21, 2025
The Day May Break, Chapters One to Four solo exhibition and book release

Tamera Kreisler Gallery, Estampa Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
October 9 – 12, 2025
The Echo of Our Voices: The Day May Break: Chapter Four solo booth 

Waddington Custot Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 
November 6 – December 31, 2025
The Echo of Our Voices: The Day May Break: Chapter Four solo exhibition 

Polka Galerie, Paris, France
March 18, 2026
The Echo of Our Voices: The Day May Break: Chapter Four solo exhibition

Gallerie d’Italia Museum, Turin, IT
March 11 – September 6, 2026
Solo exhibition of all four chapters of The Day May Break

About Nick Brandt 

Nick Brandt is a British photographer whose work focuses on the impact of environmental destruction and climate breakdown on some of the most vulnerable animals and people as well as the natural world.

His early photographic series includes the trilogy encompassing On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across The Ravaged Land (2001-2012); Inherit the Dust (2016); This Empty World (2019), all photographed in East Africa. Since 2020, he has been working on The Day May Break, an ongoing global series that portrays people and animals impacted by climate change and environmental destruction. Chapter One (2021) was photographed in Kenya and Zimbabwe, and Chapter Two (2022) was in Bolivia. SINK / RISE, Chapter Three (2023) was photographed in Fiji, and The Echo of Our Voices, Chapter Four (2024) was photographed in Jordan. All the series are published in book form.

Brandt has had solo gallery and museum shows worldwide, including New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Shanghai, Oslo, Paris, and Los Angeles. 

Website: https://www.nickbrandt.com
Instagram: @nickbrandtphotography