ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2019 Submission

Varecia variegata variegata. The black and white ruffed lemur is critically endangered in Madagascar primarily due to hunting and habitat loss and fragmentation. Threats include slash-and-burn agriculture (tavy) and illegal logging and mining as well as natural disasters like cyclones.

Humans are causing the sixth mass extinction in Earth's History. I am photographing endangered species with the wet collodion process, to show the fragility of the biodiversity of species. I am exploring the wet collodion process, after developing a passion for this medium. I take photos of endangered animals, creating wet collodion prints, to show the delicacy of the endangered species. By photographing endangered animals in the wet collodion process, my intent is to bring awareness to the animals situations, the deforestation, loss of habitat polluted environment, and human threats. The animals do not have voices to tell humanity that they are the cause of most of the impending extinction, with a process that is a slowly growing trend.

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