Animals: Estela de Castro

Portraits of abused animals, from highway roadkill to the circus. Estela de Castro (born 1978) is a renowned Spanish portrait photographer who currently serves as the official photographer of the Spanish royal family. Though she has had a vast and wide-ranging career, her work has always maintained a strong link to the struggle for human and animal rights. In this latest series, de Castro aims to raise awareness about animal abuse through portraits of animals rescued from circumstances of abandonment, captivity, hunting, testing, breeding or illegal trafficking. These powerful images make us reflect on the ways in which we classify, control and dominate everything that human beings have deemed to belong to a separate species. AUTHOR: Estela de Castro (Madrid, 1978). Photographer and professor specialised in portrait photography. Part of her work is strongly linked to the struggle for human and animal rights. Her photographs are present in the collection of the Ministry of Culture of Spain, the Centro de ArteDos de Mayo CA2M, ENAIRE Foundation, Asambleade Madrid, COEM and in several private collections. SELLING POINTS: . Estela de Castro is a renowned Spanish portrait photographer who currently serves as the official photographer of the Spanish royal family . Portraits of animals rescued from situations of abandonment like hunting, circus, zoo, laboratories, etc. Images are close-up, the animals (birds, turtles, horses, sheep, etc.) seem calm and relaxed in front of a dark background, which recalls classic studio portraiture 100 colour images