In His New Book, Photographer Zed Nelson Lifts the Veil on 'The Anthropocene Illusion'

In His New Book, Photographer Zed Nelson Lifts the Veil on 'The Anthropocene Illusion'

In the 1985 film Out of Africa starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a picturesque scene highlights the pair on a romantic picnic high above the sweeping Masai Mara National Reserve. Today, tourists are invited to recreate the iconic moment in a colonial-inspired, hillside champagne picnic experience for which “local Masaai tribesman are employed to provide picturesque authenticity to the experience,” photographer Zed Nelson says. In his new…