Jo-Anne McArthur - We Animals Media
We Are Photographers
English - June 09, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Education photography storytelling interview community creative photo people kenna klosterman creativelive film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning photojournalist, sought-after speaker, and the founder of We Animals Media. She’s been documenting the plight of animals on all seven continents for almost two decades. She is the author of two books & her forthcoming third book - Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene - will be published Fall 2020. Jo-Anne was the subject of the acclaimed documentary, The Ghosts in Our Machine. Her photography and writing has been published in National Geographic, The Washington Post, VICE, the LA Times, Canadian Geographic, Huffington Post, and Outdoor Photography. Jo-Anne speaks internationally at schools, universities, and conferences on the subjects of photography, the human-animal relationship, social change, and empathy.
In this episode, we explore the genre of animal photojournalism and influences of conflict, humanitarian and conservation photography. Jo-Anne talks about animal sentience, ethology and women being at the forefront of animal activism. Hear about the making-of her upcoming book Hidden and how the We Animals Archive of images and film is being used globally. We discuss the topics of PTSD, the current pandemic, storytelling, policy change, and how empathy and compassion led her to action.
This is We Are Photographers with Jo-Anne McArthur and this is her story.
Connect with Jo-Anne McArthur: weanimalsmedia.org | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
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