I was sitting next to a guy on the plane with a striking deer photo on his laptop desktop. Found out when he’s not traveling the world as an engineer for GE, he’s living in a wooded area in Erie, Pennsylvania where he hooks up sensors with digital cameras and straps them onto trees in his backyard. When deer and other animals come near, the sensor picks up the motion and signals the camera to take a photo.
He showed me a slew of near-romantic shots of deer, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, and other furry creatures that call his backyard their home. I started thinking about ways I could use this in the city… He started thinking about the eery future of his artwork… “This is the first time I’ll have photos of the deer alive before I kill it.” Images above from trailcam.com.
September 16th, 2008 at 6:25 am
yea, but the thing is…it’s bullshit, that quote he said. it’s the 21st fucking Century and people are still going out and hunting. it isn’t enough we raise animals in order to process them; we have to go out and hunt them still. this sort of statement negates in every way the beauty of the photos. i cannot believe people are still going out and shooting animals. i love hearing those stories of hunters killing one another by mistake. Darwinism at its finest.