The Magnum & World Press Photo Square Print Sale: Written by Light October 16–22
107 Square Prints priced at $110/£110/€120, available for one week only. Shop the collection now.
Alessandra Sanguinetti explores not only people and places with her practice, but also animals and their relation to humans. “I’ve been drawn to photographing animals, especially farm animals, since I was a kid, and always while doing so I’d be filled with a nostalgic, wistful feeling,” Sanguinetti explains. The photographer then cites John Berger’s essay, Why Look at Animals?, to explain the root of that feeling: “With their parallel lives, animals offer man a companionship which is different from any offered by human exchange. Different because it is a companionship offered to the loneliness of man as a species.”
This image, which captures the silhouette of a mule in the dark, is available as part of the Magnum After Dark Collection, celebrating nighttime photography from around the world.
