“The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. One theory that has been suggested by Brandt is that “the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, causing them to crash into the lake,” Brandt writes in his new photo book Across the Ravaged Land.
It is not entirely clear how the birds die. “The idea for me, instantly, was to take portraits of them as if they were alive.”Ī bat © Nick Brandt 2013, Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, NY “When I saw those creatures for the first time alongside the lake, I was completely blown away,” says Brandt. The haunting lake was first photographed by photographer Nick Brandt who stumbled on the lake in 2011 on his way to shoot photos for a new book on the disappearing wildlife of East Africa. The alkali salt crust on the surface of the lake is also every so often colored deep red or pink by the salt-loving microorganisms that live there.
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