Nicola Brandt is a Namibian artist of German and South African descent. Her work forms part of intergovernmental talks between Namibia and Germany and has been shown at the National Art Gallery of Namibia, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Universities of Yale and Stanford, and Museum Würth in Germany, among others. Brandt is the author of Landscapes Between Then and Now: Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Video and Performance Art (2020) and has contributed to publications including The Journey: New Positions in African Photography (2020), co-edited by Simon Njami and Sean O’Toole, and the reader of the thirteenth Bamako Biennale (2022).