Today, 13.10.2011, I have been to Fotografiska Museet (The Museum of Photography) in Stockholm, Sweden. And I really wanted to share this letter I penned for a photographer, Nick Brandt, right at the café at the museum.
Dear Nick Brandt,
I am very much impressed and touched by your photography. You depicted the animals so beautifully that I am speechless.
Up to now, we have been ‘primed’ to classify these animals living in Africa as being ‘wild’. That is because we have been thought so by all the documentaries and books which mostly focused on ‘wild life’.
However, the way you depicted or photographed them altered this narrow-minded look of mine, for which I am very glad. In your fabulous photographs, I really got the chance to see that they are much more different than we have been prescribed. They are innocent and soulful creatures. In their own environment, they have roles; father, mother, friend or let’s say company which is something not easily found in our ‘human’ world.
I have always been scared of those animals. Thanks to you, all my fears were gone in the Exhibition. And I realized how much I liked them.
Before visiting the Fotografiska Museet (the Museum of Photography) in Stockholm, I never wanted a photo of those ‘wild’ animals hanging in my walls. With your perspective on them, I definitely would love to have one.
Thanks for raising my affection for the animals and Africa
Bests
Ramazan
ABOUT NICK BRANDT
Nick Brandt is a photographer who photographs exclusively in Africa, one of his goals being to record a visually poetic last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are gone at the hands of man. 
Born in 1966 and raised in London, England, Brandt studied Painting, and then Film at St. Martins School of Art.
He moved to America in 1992 and directed many award-winning music videos for the likes of Michael Jackson (Earth Song, Stranger in Moscow,Cry), Moby, Jewel (singer), Embrace, XTC, Badly Drawn Boy).
It was while directing “Earth Song”, a music video for Jackson in Tanzania, in 1995 that Brandt fell in love with the animals and land of East Africa. Over the next few years, frustrated that he could not capture on film his feelings about and love for animals, he realized there was a way to achieve this through photography, in a way that he felt no-one had really done before.
(see: http://www.nickbrandt.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Brandt )
Ramazan Dicle 