Some Queer Animals, Roelof Bakker

‘Some Queer Animals’ responds at a local level to the global loss of seventy per cent of wildlife in the last fifty years. The book and insert show thirty-three postmortem fossil-like life size cyanotype portraits of British wildlife in queer blue and ghost white. Animals are portrayed not as specimen, but as individuals, each with their own lifestory. The project uses care as activism and is an experiment in queering wildlife photography, working without a camera in the field and physically handling animals, the process of documentation proposing a closer, mutually caring relationship with nature and wildlife, to nurture ecosystems instead of destroying them, to look after all life on our doorstep and planet.

Includes essay and poem. With folded double-sided art print insert. Epigraph by Derek Jarman.

Full title: Some Queer Animals: postmortem cyanotype impressions of British wildlife killed on roads and in the landscape of one English village, May 2020-September 2021

Softcover book with art print insert, PUR-bound. 31 colour cyanotype impressions. 240mm x 294mm, 80pp, 170gsm FSC certified wood-free uncoated paper. With folded double-sided art print insert of 2 colour cyanotype impressions, unfolded size 442mm x 546mm, 150gsm FSC certified wood-free uncoated paperstock. Printed in Great Britain. Publication date 27 October 2023

ISBN 9780957382879