Stunning Portraits Of Rare And Endangered Birds
A Portrait Often Tries To Capture The Nature Of The Model, His Emotions, Personality, And Thoughts. For A Photographer Like Tim Fleck, Animal Subjects Are Just As Charming And Intimate As Human Models.
Tim Fleck is a London-based artist known for his work with endangered species, rare dogs, and birds. Relying on his prolific collection of works, Falak continues photographing the most expressive, colorful, and emotional birds worldwide. These portraits connect the viewer and the birds and create a deep bond between the human and animal realms.
Fleck’s recent subjects are the Inca tern and the toucan (giant toucan). The Inca race has a characteristic white mustache that gives the bird a strange smile that seems to stretch to its dark eyes. Fleck wrote on his Instagram that the Inca race is the Salvador Dali of the world of birds for him.
Inca sea swallow
Tucan Tuco
In front of the Inca’s charming laugh, Toucan Tuco’s colorful geometry and intense gaze have an effect of power. As you can see in Fleck’s picture of a toucan chick, toucan chicks start their life with much lighter feathers than their adult bird.
Toucan chick
Andean rock
These sensual portraits of birds can evoke eye contact and empathy in humans. Fleck has so far published five books of animal photographs; among these stunning images are creatures such as horses, pandas, and penguins. Although viewers may see human emotional reflections in these animal subjects’ faces and gestures, Fleck hopes for more than this one-way connection.
white owl
His work promotes a paradigm shift from anthropomorphism (anthropomorphic interpretation of any concept or thing that does not necessarily have human characteristics or form) to the rejection of anthropocentrism (man is the source of all values).
Can humans remove themselves from the center of attention among living creatures? Can we move beyond simply attributing our emotions to animals and consider the unique experiences of other species as necessary as our own? While we may see human emotions in stunning portraits of birds, what else is there to see when we try to leave “humanity” behind?
Reed wheel
Gentoo penguins dive
Bird portraits are full of emotion. Viewers usually tend to humanize animals by attributing their feelings. Fleck hopes his work will create a connection between humans and other members of the animal kingdom. By doing this, he wants to help decentralize the human experience and open minds to examine how we relate to other animals and their experiences on Earth.
Himalayan Cockerel
Jacob’s pigeon
Wide beak and long tail
Scavenger horned chicken
Polish silver rooster
Good pigeon
cocked parrot
You can visit Tim Fleck’s Instagram page for pictures of endangered birds and other animals.
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We hope you enjoyed this shutter episode. What is your opinion about the photographer’s purpose for his bird portraits? Are you also interested in or used to anthropomorphizing animals?
