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Zoo is a wild ride through Anders Petersen's oeuvre, a racy edit of his work that has animals as its central theme. Whether they be conscious portraits of animals or a haphazard photographic encounter with a woman's legs in python-print tights, Petersen draws out the animal and animalistic in all that he sees. At a typical zoo we are the spectators, peering in on creatures as they go about their existence, mostly oblivious to our presence. Yet in Zoo we find ourselves both behind and before the bars of the cage-with Petersen as the delighted zookeeper.
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Anders Petersen, geboren 1959 in Elmshorn; 1986 - 91 Studium der Freien Kunst an der Muthesius Hochschule Kiel; 1992 Gaststudium im Bereich mixed media an der Myndlista og Handidaskoli Reykjavik; 1992 - 98 freischaffend in Kiel; 1998 freischaffend in Hamburg und Elmshorn. 2009 wurde Anders Petersen mit dem Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis 2008 für seine sozialdokumentarische Reportagefotografie geehrt.
Summary
Zoo is a wild ride through Anders Petersen’s oeuvre, a racy edit of his work that has animals as its central theme. Whether they be conscious portraits of animals or a haphazard photographic encounter with a woman’s legs in python-print tights, Petersen draws out the animal and animalistic in all that he sees. At a typical zoo we are the spectators, peering in on creatures as they go about their existence, mostly oblivious to our presence. Yet in Zoo we find ourselves both behind and before the bars of the cage—with Petersen as the delighted zookeeper.
