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Young connoisseurs of art will definitely like The Flying Mop or the yawning Hector.
Tim Flack is a British animal photographer who clearly showed that animals are still actors, and their range of emotions is as rich as that of humans. You can verify this at his exhibition at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography. Be sure to take your children with you – they will not get bored, because at the exhibition you can:
Meet the dog named “The Flying Mop”
Flack managed to photograph a bullet dog in a jump. Bullets, due to their “dreadlocked” wool, can resemble sheep, and this is no coincidence, because this breed was bred in Hungary specifically for working as a shepherd.
Flying mop, 2010
Find out that dogs may yawn in response
This was noticed by researchers at the University of Tokyo. The experiment involved 25 volunteers under the age of one year. It turned out that an open yawn (not covered by a hand) can “infect” even four-legged ones. Moreover, they reacted more actively to the owner’s yawn. But Tim Flack photographed Hector’s dog in such a way that, looking at it, you would want to yawn yourself.
And animals are still those actors
Flack is a photographer who deliberately portrays animals outside of their natural context. It is important for him to make a portrait: to capture the character, the essence of his fluffy model. So he achieves a resemblance to a person and makes the image of an animal more understandable for people, reduces the distance between them.
“While other wildlife photographers capture animals in their environment, there is a sense of ‘different’. But I create characteristic portraits, specifically photographing animals in the conditions in which we are used to being ourselves. This creates a sense of similarity, which evokes emotions in us, and through emotions – empathy, ”comments Tim.
When: all of November.
Where: Gallery named after the Lumiere brothers (Bolotnaya emb., 3, building 1, metro station “Kropotkinskaya”).
Cost: from 400 rubles.