For Jeffrey Kluger’s feature on animal grieving in this week’s issue, TIME reached out to noted animal photographer Charlotte Dumas, who has been making deeply empathetic portraits of a variety of species for years.
In Pentti Sammallahti’s world, man is not the center. His images are almost fables, where animals act as our guides.
Photographer Daniel Naudé has spent the last six years chasing wild dogs across his native South Africa in an effort to understand the relationship between human and animal, and why we never quite know which one we are.
From the U.S. presidential debate in Denver and a ferry disaster in Hong Kong to Europe’s unbelievable Ryder Cup comeback in Illinois and a tiger cub at the Shanghai Zoo, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Vincent Fournier worked with animal geneticists to understand how creatures adapt to a changing world. His new work imagines what it would be like if rabbits were super intelligent, ibises had silicon claws and orchids tasted like bananas.
Photographs of elephants deep in the Ugandan jungle, leopards in the Ecuadorian rain forests or jacquacus in a national park in Peru have never been seen like this before. TEAM, the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network, has installed cameras in the middle of remote areas all over the world to collect data on local animals and climate.
To shoot the cover photo for this week’s TIME story about animal friendships, photographer Catherine Ledner called on years of experience with cute critters.
The average animal doesn’t make headlines, but countless creatures have been photographed amid the chaos and destruction so widely connected to some of the year’s biggest stories. Here, LightBox looks back on a few furry friends who’ve found themselves in harm’s way this year.
The artist cuts and folds common domestic pets and animals into creatures that exist somewhere between photography and collage.
Ed Panar’s new book is filled with cute and cuddly animals staring back at him.
