The New York Review of Books has a piece on A Shadow Falls, the beautiful new collection from Nick Brandt, who has photographed wild animals in East Africa, without a telephoto lens, for the past decade. Brandt says: “My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They’re my elegy to a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Portraits from a parched land
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged Africa, Nick Brandt, photography, The New York Review of Books on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Land grab in Africa
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged Africa, Ethiopia on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Although I try to avoid writing about finance, there is a fascinating piece in The Observer on investment banks, hedge funds, commodity traders, sovereign wealth funds and UK pension funds leading the rush to buy cheap agricultural land in Africa: “Ethiopia is only one of 20 or more African countries where land is being bought [...]
