Some Queer Animals, Roelof Bakker

Shortlist 2024 AUTHOR BOOK AWARD, Arles, Les Rencontres de la Photographie
Shortlist EI2024 Photobook Award, Braga, Portugal

Some Queer Animals is a book showing thirty-three postmortem fossil-like life size contact-printed cyanotype portraits of British wildlife recorded in and around one English village in Cambridgeshire.

The work responds at a local level to the global loss of 70% of wildlife in the last 50 years and functions as an experiment in queering wildlife photography, instead of using high tech equipment, using paper in the field to make body contact prints, physically interacting with individual animals.

Using care as activism, the process of documentation proposes a closer, mutually caring relationship with nature and wildlife; to look after all life on our planet, to nurture our ecosystems not destroy them.

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, 120gsm FSC certified wood-free uncoated paperstock. Printed in Great Britain. Publication date 27 October 2023

ISBN 9780957382879