Author: pigeonowl

Rebecca Forster, born 1986, is an autodidactic freelance fine art photographer. Key motifs of her photography are prejudices and identity under the shadow of role expectations. Her aim is to create a piece of art with a message behind: to picture ideas, not individuals or physical things, and to raise attention for problems of society through this. Each photo is part of a series, maybe also because of her big passion for fashion magazines since she was a teen. Fashion still plays an important role in her photography, but always remains a stylistic device only and is never supposed to be the subject of the photo. Her inspiration she finds through various sources, such as personal experiences, travelling, paintings, mythology, literature and movies. Besides her fine art series she loves to take individual animal portraits.

Zoo: Behind the Scenes

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Photos from my “backstage” experiences in the zoo, from 2001 and from 2013 until today. Alongside the memories behind them, many of these are my most precious treasures. [They differ regarding the quality as some of them are mobile shots only.]

  • Squirrel monkey hand
  • Maggie & me
  • squirrel monkey hands in mine
  • lemur hand
  • Jimmy the chimp with brush and yellow color
  • Kalif the camel
  • Dundee holding hands
  • Bruno
  • Potto “Baby” loved this
  • feeding giraffe Corolla
  • feeding Yaris
  • Apollon the python
  • Kangaroo Dundee
  • Walther slowly (!) waking up in his water bed. Hard to get him out in the morning!
  • interaction with Dura
  • Xaver smiling
  • Treatment Battle
  • squirrel monkey hands in mine
  • Squirrel monkey with boxes
  • Peephole I
  • Peephole II
  • squirrel monkey hands in mine
  • Lemur with sunglasses stolen from me. It was unfair, it was three against one!
  • lemur feeding
  • spot the original: lemur with plush toy
  • lemur feeding
  • lemurs with self-made frozen fruits
  • spot the original: lemurs with plush toy
  • spot the original: lemurs with plush toy
  • Lucky enjoying his shower
  • Luise falling asleep at my feet I
  • Luise falling asleep at my feet II
  • Luise curious
  • Mongoose boy from 2017
  • Heiner feeling comfy in a Heineken box
  • Luise can’t wait
  • Heiner with treatment ball
  • Luise blocking my cleaning tools
  • Heiner in the waste bin, making sure nothing gets removed which could still be of any use
  • Luise waiting for enrichments
  • Ronja wants to be in, too
  • our drill grandma enjoying enrichments
  • Aardvark boy Mawuko exploring my leg
  • Piggedy the emu
  • Penguin feeding
  • Penguins in a row
  • Nelly the kea
  • Toto with duplo
  • Toto with glove
  • chimp artist Guidage selecting the colors for her latest Œuvre
  • excrements – size rising: giraffe (smallest), antilope, zebra, giant tortoise (biggest)
  • hedgehoc tenrec transforming the daily cleaning into an adventure playground
  • Tools
  • mineral lick
  • Dunde & Me I
  • Dundee & Me II