Born and raised in London, Nick Brandt studied Film and Painting at St. Martins School of Art. He started photographing in December 2000 in East Africa, beginning the body of work that is his signature subject matter and style. Brandt 's first book of photographs, "On This Earth", was published in October 2005, by Chronicle Books, with forewords by Jane Goodall and Alice Sebold (author of The Lovely Bones). He has had numerous one-man exhibitions between 2004 and 2006, including London, New York, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Berlin, Santa Fe, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco. He now lives in Topanga, California....