For his series The Animal Kingdom, portrait photographer Randal Ford took pictures of 150 different animals. The collection is the culmination of nearly two years' worth of work. (From 2018)
is the culmination of nearly two years of commercial and editorial photography. Before approaching a publisher, Ford set an intention: To gather photographs of 150 different animals against neutral backgrounds in a studio setting. For a few of his shoots, he used professionally trained animals available for rent through services such as Hollywood Animals or Cat Haven.
"I'd ask people, 'You know someone with a buffalo?'" Ford explains. "They'd say, 'Nope, but I can hook you up with a guy with an armadillo.'" When he's on set, Ford has one or two assistants in tow and his trusty Nikon D850 camera. Those are the variables he can control. The rest? Nope. Because animals—especially the untrained ones—are unpredictable, Ford's shoots can last anywhere from 10 minutes to two hours . And some of the photographer's subjects require unique treatment, like the squirrel who could only sit still after a swim in a bag of pistachios or the mountain lion who dropped raw meat off Ford's feet.
As netizens, we're hounded with images of animals every day. There's the lion cub screensaver that comes pre-installed on your laptop; the video of the zoo panda that everyone's mom emails them; and let's not forget your dog's Instagram . But why are we so consumed by these furry creatures that share so little with us in return?
Ford offers a theory: "The emotions we apply to these animals are emotions that are within us." So, a bad day at the office might look like a weary highland calf. The feeling of receiving a text from your Hinge date could be a triumphant Ameraucana rooster. We anthropomorphize animals all the time, seeking to know them better in relation to our inner thoughts and feelings.
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