LAST CHANCE Nick Brandt: The Day May Break Chapter Four – The Echo of Our Voices

The Day May Break (2021–) is an ongoing global series portraying people and animals whose lives have been profoundly affected by environmental degradation and destruction. This fourth chapter of the series was photographed in Jordan, one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, and features portraits of refugee families who fled the war in Syria and now live in Jordan – an ongoing displacement largely driven by the effects of climate change. Many are forced to relocate multiple times each year, following seasonal agricultural work and scarce rainfall.

This chapter in the series is a testament to connection and resilience — an affirmation that even when all else is lost, we still have one another. Photographic historian Philip Prodger has described the series as “a landmark body of work by one of photography’s great environmental champions … Channelling his outrage into quiet determination, the result is a portrait of us all, at a critical moment in the Anthropocene”.