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Isa Leshko
Isabell Carmella Leshko (born 1971) is an American fine art photographer best known for her ''Elderly Animals'' series which focuses on animal rights, aging and mortality. Life Leshko grew up in Carteret, New Jersey in an Italian-American working-class family. She received her bachelor's degree from Haverford College, where she studied cognitive psychology, Neuroscience, neurobiology, and gender studies. Her work has been published in ''The Atlantic'', ''The Boston Globe'', ''The Guardian'', ''Harper's Magazine'', and ''The New York Times''. Leshko began traveling to animal sanctuaries across the country, photographing elderly farm animals that rarely live out their full natural lifespans. She started this series after caring for her mother who had Alzheimer's disease. This series provided an outlet for dealing with her grief and also became a commentary on commonly held assumptions about aging and animals in their later years. Some of the animals are factory farm rescues, other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Rights
Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their utility for humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. Broadly speaking, and particularly in popular discourse, the term "animal rights" is often used synonymously with "animal protection" or "animal liberation". More narrowly, "animal rights" refers to the idea that many animals have fundamental rights to be treated with respect as individuals—rights to life, liberty, and freedom from torture that may not be overridden by considerations of aggregate welfare. Many advocates for animal rights oppose the assignment of moral value and fundamental protections on the basis of species membership alone. This idea, known as speciesism, is considered by them to be a prejudice as irrational as any other. They maintain that animals should no long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
