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Captive Paperback – April 15, 2017

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In this follow-up to We Animals, Canadian photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur explores zoos and aquaria, and how “we” animals interact with “those” animals. In over one hundred photographs, Captive reveals the lives of animals in zoos and aquaria around the world. McArthur photographed animals in these situations for over a decade, and the book will include images from over 20 countries on five continents, shot most recently in the last year while she was working with The Born Free Foundation in Europe. The book has contributions from Virginia McKenna, co-founder of the Born Free Foundation, philosopher Lori Gruen, and Ron Kagan, CEO of the Detroit Zoo. We’re at an important point in history right now. More than ever, ordinary people are thinking about the ethics of keeping animals in captivity for our entertainment. This reflection will help propel us into a new era of (re)considering our relationship with other animals. Captive aims to be a part of these important discussions.
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    Lantern Publishing & Media
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    April 15, 2017
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    10 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1590565622
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1590565629
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Jo-Anne McArthur's photographs of haunted and traumatized animals imprisoned for the term of their natural lives for no better reason than that they have a curiosity value for us are infinitely depressing. Taken together, they constitute an indictment of the so-called zoological garden to which there is no conceivable reply. --J.M. Coetzee, author, The Lives of Animals

To experience Jo-Anne McArthur's photography is to absorb the revolutionary idea that the loneliness of a captive animal is our own loneliness that their confiscation from the natural way of being is our own confiscation from the same. And that perhaps the solution to their existential plight might be the beginning of a solution to our own. Breathtaking, mournful, vital. --Andrew Westoll, author, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary

McArthur sums it all up. We can no longer keep animals like this. Haunting and sad, yet beautifully composed. A must-have book for all who care about animals. --Britta Jaschinski, photographer

About the Author

Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning photojournalist. She has been documenting the plight of animals on all seven continents for over ten years. She has created the We Animals project and is also the other of a book entitled We Animals. Jo-Anne hails from Toronto, Canada.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lantern Publishing & Media (April 15, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590565622
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590565629
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.34 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
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Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning photojournalist, author, and sought-after speaker.

She is the founder of We Animals Media, an internationally celebrated media agency that documents our complicated relationship with animals globally. The images have been used by hundreds of organizations, publishers and academics to advocate for animals. She is also the subject of Canadian filmmaker Liz Marshall’s acclaimed 2013 documentary, The Ghosts in Our Machine, and the co-founder of the Unbound Project, which showcases women on the front lines of animal advocacy.

McArthur’s has authored three books - -

HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene (2020) (co-authored with Keith Wilson), an unflinching book of photography about our conflict with non-human animals around the globe, as depicted through the lenses of forty award-winning photojournalists.

Captive (2017), an examination of the animals whom we’ve placed in zoos and we animals who look at them. It is a book that will change our preconceptions about zoos, aquaria, animal welfare and just what or who it is we think we see when we face the animal.

We Animals (2014), which illustrates and investigates animals in the human environment: whether they're being used for food, fashion and entertainment, or research, or are being rescued to spend their remaining years in sanctuaries.

McArthur’s photography and writing has been in publications such as National Geographic and National Geographic Traveller, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Lens Culture, Medium, VICE, the LA Times, Canadian Geographic, DAYS Japan, Helsingin Sanomat, Der Spiegel, PhotoLife magazine, Huffington Post, Outdoor Photography, and Feature Shoot.

Her list of photography awards include 2020 Nature Photographer of the Year, Man and Nature category winner; 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, photojournalism category; Italy’s Festival of Ethical Photography award, Single Shot; Austria’s Alfred Fried Peace Award in 2018; and the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, People’s Choice category. In 2021, McArthur served as a jury member for World Press Photo.

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Pulls at your heart strings. Genuinely surprised they didn’t have this local zoo in Hershey, Pa. I will never take my children to zoos. We need to evolve faster.
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  • Michelle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend. Moving works.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2022
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    Joanne never fails to silently convey volumes with each picture. Essential viewing for all animal lovers.
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  • Marta S.
    5.0 out of 5 stars You will truly look at animals through this book. In the right way.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2018
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    Another great work from Jo Anne Mcarthur. She has a special gift of putting us in the shoes of others. In this case, animals in captivity.
    People usual enjoy looking at animals in zoos and similar places, without really looking at them , they just enjoy it without being critically and empathetic. This books places you in their place, being able to see them for real. The photos are accompanied with wisely chosen and informative texts.
    Great work, couldn't recommend it more.
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  • marcos chaves ladeira
    5.0 out of 5 stars Alarming wake-up call!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2021
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    Alarming, disturbing but realistic. A wake-up call as to how animals have been historically mistreated by Humankind over millennia.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have
    Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2017
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    Bought this book for my small library, and realized that I am the only library in the county, quite possibly the only library in the STATE with this book on their shelves.. But it is SO important. It is very eye opening and a must-see for anyone who mistakenly believes that zoos revolve around the animals rather than around us.
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  • Vegan for the Animals
    5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and evocative images
    Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2017
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    The photography in this book reveals what is hiding in plain sight at zoos, circuses, and other captive animal facilities: complex animals suffering in sterile, deprived environments with a jungle veneer. I wish I had a hundred copies of this book—or a pocket version—to leave in airplanes, doctors offices, etc.
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  • Leah
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good coffee table book.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019
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    Pulls at your heart strings. Genuinely surprised they didn’t have this local zoo in Hershey, Pa. I will never take my children to zoos. We need to evolve faster.
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    Good coffee table book.

    Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019
    Pulls at your heart strings. Genuinely surprised they didn’t have this local zoo in Hershey, Pa. I will never take my children to zoos. We need to evolve faster.
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  • Michelle Jones
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2020
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    Fantastic work of art that hits me in the feels. ❤❤❤
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  • Mt Tom Photo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful all around.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017
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    Very moving. Excellent pictures. Wonderful all around.
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  • Diego Len
    5.0 out of 5 stars A window to a sad reality
    Reviewed in Germany on December 19, 2020
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  • Ann Townsend
    5.0 out of 5 stars Please send the zoo animals back to their homes.
    Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2017
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    Jo-Anne's first book, We Animals, was beautiful, thought-provoking and haunting and I didn't know what to expect with Captive. As with the first book the photography is spectacular. She captures not only the environment in which the animals are kept captive but she manages to capture the animal's emotions of despair. After We Animals, I stopped visiting zoos as I was dismayed at seeing monkeys in tiny cages with no desire to jump and play and a falcon chained by its leg to a post in full sun. I always thought that dolphins were happy performing for us in the aquarium but in retrospect they would be happier in the ocean. After reading this book I realized that we don't put Canadian wild animals into zoos, just exotic animals who are uprooted from their natural environments in Africa and are imprisoned in an environment they don't understand. The food, air and vegetation would be alien to them and they would miss their fellow animals, their families. I think that it must be time to close these zoos. That is the message I took from this book. Not sure what I can do to help.
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  • Patrick
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2018
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    Very good book with very beautiful photos
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  • Cindy M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 💔
    Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2017
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    Thank for pouring your heart and soul into this book. As heartbreaking it is to see these photos I can't imagine how hard it was to see these animals in the states they are forced to live in.
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  • Garrev
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life in a Cage
    Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2017
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    A pragmatic and realistic perspective on how we humans have so little understanding, regard and empathy for wildlife.
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