We love horses because of their beauty. We appreciate paintings, photos and sculptures that praise the beauty of these animals, but we are not interested in their true fate… When these animals are too old, too tired, too sick or simply superfluous, they end up on the meat markets. They are often transported across Europe on trains in appalling conditions. They travel in terrible agony from Poland to Italy, France and Belgium to end their lives in slaughterhouses.
The photo shows only a fragment of the horse’s body, it is meant to resemble a planet – a place of great pain on a global scale. I have deliberately refrained from showing the most beautiful fragments – the head, the muscles or the silhouette of the horse… In reality, we have forgotten them.
The title of the photo refers to the hundred horses that were saved from such a fate by a foundation that runs an animal shelter for them. Each of them is a heartbreaking story in its own right.
The title of the photo refers to the hundred horses that were saved from such a fate by a foundation that runs an animal shelter for them. Each of them is a heartbreaking story in its own right.
2021 Photography. Limited edition 10 pcs + 2AP, pigment print on the cotton Fine Art paper, 640×900 mm (500×750 mm without borders)