Canadian Jo-Anne McArthur works internationally as a documentary photographer. The main focus of her work is to report on the abuses that animals suffer at the hands of humans. With camera in hand, she has documented issues such as bear bile farming in Asia, vivisection labs in North America, poaching in Africa, and animals used for food and in entertainment worldwide. These images form a body of work called We Animals, an ambitious project which documents animals in the human environment. Simply, the premise of the project is that humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, experimentation, entertainment, slavery and companionship. The goal of We Animals is to break down the barriers that humans have built which allow us to treat non-human animals as objects and not as sentient beings. Jo-Anne continues to lend her photographic skills to such organizations as Farm Sanctuary, Ape Action Africa, the Jane Goodall Institute, the SPCA, Save the Chimps, the Animals Asia Foundation, Zoocheck Canada, WSPA and many others. Recently, Jo-Anne's work includes: documenting former poachers in Uganda with their snare-removal project for the Jane Goodall Institute, writing a story for ELLE Magazine about a woman who rescues primates in Cameroon and working as a photo investigator for Zoocheck Canada.More on J0-Anne
- Jo-Anne's website: JoAnneMcArthur.com
- Jo-Anne's Blogs: We Animals
- Animal Voices Radio: More Than a Thousand Words: The Photography of Jo-Anne McArthur
- Canadian Living Magazine: Meet Animal Advocate Jo-Anne McArthur
- Farm Sanctuary: Outstanding Activist
Jo-Anne's Photography
