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Tim Flach on "Who’s Upside Down; Us, or the Bats?"

Brown Bag Lunch

29.09.2016 12:30  – 14:00 

Location: Rachel Carson Center, 4th floor conference room

Who’s Upside Down; Us, or the Bats?

Tim Flach will present thoughts around how animal portraiture may best be used to communicate the challenges of conservation. This presentation will include work generated from his current book project Endangered which he is in the midst of producing. It will also include images from his previous book projects More Than Human, Equus and Dog Gods.

Over the past decade, Flach's work has increasingly focused on animals, ranging widely across species but united by a distinctive style that is derived from his concerns with anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism. His interests lie in the way humans shape animals, and shape their meaning. Whether genetically, as with the featherless chicken, or with the symbolism that gives a special significance to a dove but dismisses a London pigeon as a flying rat. His images aim to promote discussion and encourage debate.

Flach has received commissions by leading editorial and commercial clients has also garnered multiple awards, including three Cannes Lions. He has won the International Photography Award's Professional Photographer of the Year for fine art. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Norwich University of the Arts in 2013.