Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Photography Monographs

Nest

Rescued Chickens at Home

by (author) Janet Holmes

text by Janelle Lynch

Publisher
Kehrer Verlag
Initial publish date
Oct 2020
Category
Monographs, Photoessays & Documentaries, Plants & Animals
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9783868289879
    Publish Date
    Oct 2020
    List Price
    $69.95

Add it to your shelf

Where to buy it

Description

How do we decide which animals are family and which are food? Why are we surprised to see a rooster gazing out the kitchen window or a hen studying herself in the mirror? After all, chickens are present in many homes, as flesh and eggs, but not as individuals with personalities of their own.

In early 2017, photographer Janet Holmes met a hen suffering from reproductive illness at the Wild Bird Fund in New York City, where she volunteered as a caregiver. During her search to find a permanent home for the hen after she was discharged from the Fund’s clinic, Janet Holmes discovered a network of people (primarily women) who turn their homes into sanctuaries for rescued chickens. She decided to make portraits of the chickens and their rescuers to honour both the birds who had suffered so much before their rescue and the people who invested so much love, time, and money caring for them.

About the authors

Janet Holmes is curator emeritus of Western Art and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Janet Holmes' profile page

Janelle Lynch's profile page

Other titles by