I ♥ Animals
How do we teach children about animals, really?
While animals are often much-loved characters in children’s cartoons, books and films, they’re also a part of our food source. This paradoxical ‘love,’ both selective and contradictory, is not a new phenomenon, but one which only gains in absurdity together with the industrialization of food production.
As our populations move towards globalization and urbanization, there is increasingly a deep chasm between people and their food source. An animal becomes less of a living, breathing being and more a sanitized, shaped, and packaged object. The friendly, happy animals presented in our books have seemingly no relationship to our hamburgers and hotdogs.
In her photobook I ♥ Animals, artist Katherine Oktober Matthews uses biting humor to audaciously strip away the veneer of civilization. In the playful format of a children’s board book, mimicking the feeling of a happy tale to read at bedtime, I ♥ Animals is sure to get under your skin.
I ♥ Animals has been self-published in an edition of 500 books.
I ♥ Animals was shortlisted for the Arles Book Awards 2017, in the Photo-Text category.
Buy the book
I ♥ Animals is available for sale directly from the artist. Purchase below to have it shipped to you directly.
€ 15
+ shipping and handling
Pick-up is available in Amsterdam, get in touch to make a request.
I ♥ Animals is also available for sale at: Stedelijk Museum, Huis Marseille, American Book Center, PhotoQ Bookshop, Tipi Bookshop (Brussels), Cafe Lehmitz Bookshop, GUP shop, among others.
Board book
12 pages
6.5 x 6.5 inches (16.5 x 16.5 cm)
8 full color images
Publication Date: May 30, 2017
Edition: 500 books
€ 15
I ♥ Animals has been shortlisted for the Arles Book Awards 2017, in the Photo-Text category.
