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Broken Animals
Britta Jaschinski
‘These bored, frustrated and hungry animals appear as reluctant figures in some unsolvable puzzle, or as victims of a grand experiment whose original purpose is lost in time.’
Slaughterhouse
Arnon Grunberg
‘I wonder whether there’s a real moral difference between killing an animal and killing a human being.’ Translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
On Coyotes
Diane Cook
‘There is something about the presence of coyotes that makes any place feel wilder than it is.’
A Moveable Beast
Helge Skodvin & Ned Beauman
‘Taxidermy offers animals both a second life and a second harassment by the Anthropocene.’ Ned Beauman introduces the photography of Helge Skodvin.
Tyger, Tyger
Aman Sethi
‘A man-eating tiger was on the prowl when I arrived in Pilibhit one rainy evening in September.’
Dog
Nadeem Aslam
‘More than once the new dog was aggressive, a stab of fire, but I did not tell the grown-ups. I feared they would take him away.’
Winterkill
Cal Flyn
‘Wildlife foundations find themselves calling for the deaths of tens of thousands of wild animals.’
Swifts
Adam Foulds
‘Swifts come closer than any other creature to living in the sky and having air and ceaseless movement as their home.’
Animal Studies
Elliot Ross & Alexander MacLeod
‘The title of this series of photographs is Animal Studies, but I am not sure about that second word. A noun or a verb? A thing or an action? Are these studies of animals or are these animals studying?’ Alexander MacLeod introduces the photography of Elliot Ross.
