S6E7: Animal Photojournalism with Jo-Anne McArthur

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Claudia talks to renowned photographer Jo-Anne McArthur about the power of images in political change for animals. They unpack what animal photojournalism is, some of the challenges photographers encounter in recording the lives of animals, and the political implications of such photos.

Date Recorded: 17 October 2023.

Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning photojournalist, sought-after speaker, photo editor, and the founder of We Animals Media. She has visited over sixty countries to document our complex relationship with animals. She is the author of three books: We Animals (2014), Captive (2017), and HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene (2020), and is the subject of Canadian filmmaker Liz Marshall’s acclaimed Canadian documentary, The Ghosts in Our Machine. Jo-Anne’s photographs have received accolades from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Nature Photographer of the Year, Big Picture, Picture of the Year International, the Global Peace Award, and others. Jo-Anne has been a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia and Denver University, and in 2020, Jo-Anne was a jury member for World Press Photo. She hails from Toronto, Canada. Find out more about Jo-Anne on her website or connect with her on Twitter (@WeAnimals).

Featured:

• Hidden, Animals in the Anthropocene by We Animals Media
• It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lindsey Addario
• Every Twelve seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight by Timothy Pachirat.
• Maximum tolerated dose by Decipher Films
• Zebra Eye by Frans Lanting
• Jo-Anne’s striking images of minks.
• We Animals Media
• Aaron Gekoski
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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. A bit about Jo-Anne (00:03:15)

3. Animals in Photos (00:06:50)

4. Violence in Images (00:09:57)

5. Personal and Contextual Framings (00:13:40)

6. Recording Everyday (00:48:05)

7. Quote (00:54:32)

8. Politics of Sight (00:59:08)

9. What are you currently working on? (01:01:58)

10. Animal Highlight - Minks (01:07:52)

11. Credits (01:16:06)