On se le dit souvent, il ne manque que la parole (ou au moins une qui corresponde à la nôtre) aux animaux. Certains ont parfois une expression que l'on pourrait croiser en se regardant dans le miroir. Dans le cadre du projet « More than Human », Tim Flach prend des clichés incroyables d'animaux qui pourraient nous faire la causette que ça nous étonnerait pas.
The Mayans once believed that the King vulture was the messenger between gods and people. Contrary to the common association between vultures and deserts, the King vulture inhabits the dense forests found in South America up to Mexico!
— Tim Flach (@timflachphotography)
This is the Victoria Crowned Pigeon, another work in progress for my new book on birds. The Victoria Crowned Pigeon is considered the largest of the living pigeon species, and can be found on mainland New Guinea. The only larger member of the pigeon family would have been the Dodo.
— Tim Flach (@timflachphotography)
I’m posting this image on international Polar Bear day. When I was there last year I was so saddened to see these bears hungrily waiting for the freeze over of the Hudson Bay, Canada, so they could venture out onto the ice to hunt for seals. The experiences I had on that trip will always stay with…
— Tim Flach (@timflachphotography)
For me, there is something strange and yet familiar about this image, maybe because it reminds me of a dog doing a similar action. What I find rather surprising is there is more tigers held in captivity in the USA alone, than there are estimated to be in the wild.
— Tim Flach (@timflachphotography)
Mutkan the Golden Tabby Tiger. This image is from my book More Than Human, I photographed Mutkan at T.I.G.E.R.S in 2011. The colouring is a natural mutation in the wild, but has also been deliberately bred in zoos. This practice has largely stopped as there is a lack of genetic diversity and this…
— Tim Flach (@timflachphotography)
In 2011 I first met Djala, a western lowland gorilla, in captivity at the Aspinall foundation in Kent, UK. Several years later, after weeks of searching for him up and down a river in the Gabon’s Batéké Plateau National Park, I found my self face to face with the very same gorilla, who had been…
— Tim Flach (@timflachphotography)
I’m talking @zsllondonzoo this evening about how artists and scientists can work together to raise awareness of endangered species. Here’s the magnificent Saiga, who is relatively unknown and would probably feel at home in the cantina in Star Wars.
— Tim Flach (@timflachphotography)
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