ANIMAL ABUSE &
EXPLOITATION
STILL LIFE/VANITAS PHOTOGRAPHY
This photographic project explores ideas surrounding animal abuse and exploitation. A real pig’s head is the visual subject matter. Within certain shots you can also catch a glimpse of taxidermy pheasants, as well as animal bones.
Presentation details took pointers from the Vanitas art style. The animals have been decorated with fruit, put on display, rearranged. Against their will. Also, dead against their will.
Vanitas is Latin for “vanity”. This speaks volume considering how animals feed into our ecosystem and lifestyles. Food, fashion, and everything in between. We, as a species, place higher value upon ourselves compared with any other living thing on planet Earth. People exploit the fact that animals can’t overcome them. The nature of these decisions is exalted by the visual attributes of the Vanitas genre.
Organizations like Reducetarian Foundation take a concessionary approach to this issue, encouraging people to think twice about animal consumption, rather than encouraging elimination of these practices. The apples visually play with this idea, weighing them up alongside a pig’s head, a now very humanized cut of meat.
Visual rationalisation would be provoked from the viewer, as they’re then encouraged to question their decision and the ethics behind animal consumption.
You can visit Reducetarian Foundation’s website here: https://www.reducetarian.org/
STILL LIFE/VANITAS PHOTOGRAPHY
This photographic project explores ideas surrounding animal abuse and exploitation. A real pig’s head is the visual subject matter. Within certain shots you can also catch a glimpse of taxidermy pheasants, as well as animal bones.
Presentation details took pointers from the Vanitas art style. The animals have been decorated with fruit, put on display, rearranged. Against their will. Also, dead against their will.
Vanitas is Latin for “vanity”. This speaks volume considering how animals feed into our ecosystem and lifestyles. Food, fashion, and everything in between. We, as a species, place higher value upon ourselves compared with any other living thing on planet Earth. People exploit the fact that animals can’t overcome them. The nature of these decisions is exalted by the visual attributes of the Vanitas genre.
Organizations like Reducetarian Foundation take a concessionary approach to this issue, encouraging people to think twice about animal consumption, rather than encouraging elimination of these practices. The apples visually play with this idea, weighing them up alongside a pig’s head, a now very humanized cut of meat.
Visual rationalisation would be provoked from the viewer, as they’re then encouraged to question their decision and the ethics behind animal consumption.
You can visit Reducetarian Foundation’s website here: https://www.reducetarian.org/
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