Peter Beard is probably one of the earliest modern artists to turn his hand to the issues of Man’s ever-increasing impact on the planet and the resulting death and destruction. Using a photographic medium, Beard starting by documenting, in the 1960s, the destruction of wildlife habitat and the death of over 35,000 elephants and 5,000 [...]
Archive of posts tagged animals
Turning Back The Clock – Harri Kallio and the Dodo
I have often wondered what the now extinct dodo bird looked like when it was still around and roaming in the wild. Harri Kallio has tried to give us an insight into this lost-forever part of our world with his series “The Dodo and Mauritius Island” Kallio undertook extensive research into the dodo, what it [...]
Clever or Effective? The Work of Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan’s art examines the massiveness of our consumption and its effects. In his artist’s statement he says “The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for [...]
Man and Animals – Amy Stein's Domesticated
How do you examine Man’s relationship with Animals and ‘nature’ in a way that doesn’t result in crass, clichéd or meaningless imagery? Amy Stein manages to do this with such a powerful artistic sensitivity that her images stop you in your tracks – well at least they did me. In her series named “Domesticated” she [...]
