Joel Sartore’s shooting wild animals at a scale where they become, well, objectified — kind of the way photographers shoot human models. He’s going to zoos and bringing a portable studio. He’s snapping the animals on pure black, or pure white backgrounds. He’s already photo’d 1,800 animals for a project with National Geographic, and he feels he’s racing the clock to capture as many species as possible, before they’re lost. And for us to weigh the cost of losing them. As Sartore writes: “The clean background, combined with nice light, allows the viewer to look every species in the eye, the window to the soul. I hope these portraits will connect with viewers and get them to understand that all creatures have at least a consciousness as well as a basic right to exist.”

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