Ata Kando, Diana Blok and Sacha de Boer the Living Other (Veenman).

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Ata Kando, Diana Blok and Sacha de Boer The Living Other (Veenman)

The Dutch have always been a forward-thinking people. They invented the compact disc, legalized marijuana and organized permissible prostitution. Unsurprisingly, this book showcases amazing work of several Dutch photographers documenting the complicated and potentially devastating relationship between the animals and humans around the globe. From the sometimes cute (a pint-sized marmalade kitten peaking out of the pocket of a man's bathrobe) to the outright upsetting (a gutted, bloody whale whose organs are being turned into fishmeal at The Whale Factory), the photos are carefully arranged in a captivating, coffeetable book style, but also tell the story of the immoral, barbaric qualities of humans while often anthropomorphizing the righteous nature of animals.