Alison and I went to see a beautiful and amazing photography exhibit at the Museum of Natural History on Saturday for her birthday. The show is around 30 or 40 very large black-and-whites of the wild horses on Sable Island, by photographer Roberto Dutesco. You can see the full collection on his website. These are some of my favourites.
He's really gotten both the complex relationships among the community and the magnificent character of its individual members. And so many moods! Serene, lonely, unbridled, courageous, threatening, content, serious, playful...
I just couldn't stop looking at them — so much mystery and beauty and strength and tenderness. It's an austere portrait of 400 animals surviving alone and fitting naturally into a weird, alien landscape in which they never originally belonged, and now they're part of that landscape's weirdness. I feel like that's a theme most of us can relate to.
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