Portraits Of Dogs By Tim Flach

Flach’s often abstract photographic style has been described as “the perfect antithesis to anthropomorphism”. "Flach employs the artistic technique of defamiliarization in many of his studio portraits, creating deliberately ambiguous close-ups, which present the subject at unusual angles in order to provoke questions from the viewer." “He may depict a horse against a monumental landscape, or create a close-up image of part of the animal so that it challenges our perspective and forces us to reconsider and question for ourselves why we react in a specific way to what we are seeing."
The book, Equus
Tim Flach’s first book, Equus, is a comprehensive photographic study of equus: “the family of animals: that goes from Ass to Zebra, but is mostly Horses” and has 180 photographs of forty different horse breeds, including donkey and zebra breeds. Humans are intentionally absent from the images. "Historically equestrian art has essentially been a mechanism used to impose status upon patrons. What I'm doing is distinctive because it chooses not to show man with horse. By separating the horse from the man I am able to focus upon celebrating the horse itself."