Add to playlistCAMERA TRAP is a comparative installation using moving images a hundred years apart. The first half of the work looks at Muybridge as both animal and landscape photographer, compared with the second half which works with current animal camera/video traps from the rainforests of Sabah (Malaysian Borneo). A visual and aural comparison of domesticated versus wild animals. Staged shooting versus remote capture. Caged sounds from the zoo versus field recordings from the rainforests.
How does the way we use camera equipment on documenting animals then and now, tell us about what we are looking for through the lens?
(In collaboration with Hutan-Kinabatangan Orang-Utan Conservation Programme based in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, Camera Trap was produced with the support of the Smithsonian Institute fellowship and in association with the National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.)
