The portraits of the endangered animals by Tim Flach are touching for the heart, mind and soul in a forceful way. The award-winning London photographer, bookable via GoSee member SEVERIN WENDELER, is known for his extraordinary imagery which captures the beauty and the special character of the animals. For years, Tim Flach has been looking for the answer to the question of how humans and animals relate to one another. With this project, he is dedicated to the rare species of the world whose existence are threatened.
Tim Flach has worked on the project for about two years, for which the preparations alone took six months. The photographer's research was thorough: He traveled around the globe to the regions where rare animals on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) live – these range from endangered animals such as the polar bear or the giant panda to species already extinct in the wild such as the northern white rhino. Sudan', the world's last northern white rhinoceros bull, died in mid-March 2018 in the Kenyan wildlife sanctuary of Ol Pejeta.
Tim Flach's photos show the personality of the animals. His emotional animal portraits forcefully affect the viewer, for which he uses a common method of human portrayal: the portrait. Tim Flach achieves this effect quite consciously. He chooses this form to amplify the feeling that animals are close to us humans. Tim Flach: "I have acquired important knowledge from studies that deal with the effects of animal photography on our hearts, minds and souls.
Traditional wildlife photography depicts animals in their natural environment – wild and free. This amplifies the impression of being different and their distance to humans. "His message is clear: we have to do something to secure the future of the animals now before it is too late. Since his earliest childhood, Tim Flach has felt a strong bond with nature and sees it as his calling to raise awareness for nature and help viewers immerse themselves in it. As he writes in the foreword of his book, "The balance of power has shifted, and nature depends as much on man as he does on it."
Production of the exhibition went in a particular direction and was realized according to the ChromaLuxe process. Instead of printing on paper, the motifs were applied to coated aluminum plates by means of thermal sublimation.
Plus, Tim Flach can be experienced live in the multi-vision show “Endangered Animals”. In his keynote, he lectures on the connection between conservation and saving endangered animals. He shows his animal portraits as well as detail and landscape photographs of the corresponding ecosystems. Tickets are still available. Sunday, 27 May, 2018 | 8pm | Multimedia hall. The keynote is in English
Venue of the exhibition: Postplatz Zingst. Duration: 18 May – September 2018. Vernissage with the photographer present: 26 May, 2018 | 11am
