In his new book, photographer Zaid Nelson raises the veil on “The illusion of anthroposin”

In the 1985 movie Outside Africa The Merrill Strip and Robert Redford starring, a picturesque scene highlighting the spouses on a high romantic picnic above the comprehensive Massay Mara National Reserve. Today, tourists are invited to re -create the iconic moment in the experience of the chanting picnic inspired by the colonies, which works “the local Masai tribal man to provide great originality for the experience”, the photographer Zed Nelson He says.

In his new book, They are anthroposin, Nelson takes us on a world journey that raises the veil, so to speak, as we think it is “wild” and our uncomfortable relationship to the environment. “While we destroy the natural world around us, we have become masters of an artificial” experience “of its style, which is a reassuring scene, and they are.

Anthroposin defines advanced rapid changes on the environment due to the inexhaustible human effect. Many scholars put The origin of the era During the industrial revolution, but some are considered in 1945 – the year that humans tested the atomic bomb – that the real beginning is. However, others note that anthroposin started even before, during the emergence of agriculture.

At this stage, we have entered into an increased relationship with the natural world, dependence on medium extractive processes, heavy manufacturing, plastic materials, and advanced technology-each dependent on the land resources. The tendencies of our colonial societies also apply to nature as much as they apply to other areas occupied by humans.

We are exhausted The entire groundwater layerForever change the formation of the Earth, and the addiction of sensitive ecosystems in an equal way. All the time, Nelson appears, we participate in seeing a nostalgia for a wild wilderness while we expect to depict our lifestyles.

In Kenyan National Gardens like Masai Mara, wildlife is provided with a haven, “but the animals inside which they live to survive mainly for human entertainment and reassurance are allowed,” says Nelson. “These animals become, in fact, to pay them for tourists who are eager to see a picture of a picture of a nostalgia for the natural world.”

The Nelson Luminous Series are clicks in the absurdity of the illusion that nature is still prosperous as it was. Artificial snow falls from a cannon in Italian dolomite, for example, gestures to the warmer winter chapters. As a result of the climate crisis, which leads to SnowThe powder is manufactured so that vacationers can skate.

One of the brutal buildings covered with chrome generosity to the crowded national parks to the black half of the stones, such as artists came out during a safari, and participates moments that feel perverted and contradictory, indicating that problems that cannot ultimately exonerate behind the dandruff.

They are anthroposin The series ranked first in the 2025 professional category Sony World Photography AwardsAnd the book, which comes out this month, is available for pre -order in Guest store. Ten percent of the profits for the Earth’s friends will be donated, which is not profitable for environmental justice. See more on Nelson Instagram.