© Isabella Rozendaal, Sedated and shaved, ready for castration, from the project On Loving Animals

© Isabella Rozendaal, from the Hunting project

Irony is part of Isabella’s projects portraying animals, either as objects of love or as desirable preys. Hunters will argue no one loves animals as they do. I find this such an absurd statement I don’t even argue with them. Her images manage to highlight several incongruities in these supposed loving relationships with animals. The ownership seems to liberate a perverse sense of power; the same happens with propriety. Here is no different.

For more of Isabella’s words and pictures here