These photographs are not at all montage, not the work of an eerie sculptor with a perverse taste. These birds and animals are a frozen monument of eternity, a stone statue in which life no longer glimmers.
Any animal, touching this eerie lake, located in Tanzania, turns to stone. The secret of this effect is that the deceptive silence of a terrible reservoir lies in the lifelessness of the water surface.
The entire body of water has a rare chemical composition with a pH level constantly between 9 and 10.5, and what happens to living organisms after contact with water is more terrifying than those created for horror films.
A new book by photographer Nick Brandt, the author of these photographs, reveals the secrets of these creatures, this land and immortalized birds and animals affected by alkali.
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