Elephants in Dust – The New Yorker

In order to address this broader problem, Nick Brandt deliberately set out, in “Inherit the Dust,” to decontextualize his wildlife photographs. He produced life-sized prints of his earlier photographs, fastened them to large panels, and then placed the panels at locations at the forlorn interstices of Africa’s uncontrolled development—garbage dumps, building sites, quarries, factory yards—places where animals once roamed but are now scarcer than U.F.O.s.