A trip to Tanzania turned Nick Brandt on to photography 20 years ago, but his first love was animals.

“Africa is one of the few places left in the world where you can see animals en masse stretching across your field of vision,” he says. “That vision [of multiple species] taps into something deep within many of our psyches. There is a sense of extraordinary wonderment going back to a more primeval time, when that was commonplace across the entire world.” Photography, he says, was simply the best way to express his feelings about animals and nature, and he has been using it since as a call to action to preserve what remains.

With his latest project, “Inherit