Sharjah (Union)
American photographer Jules Sartore, owner of the “Astronomy of Pictures” project, the initiative aimed at documenting animal species and genera that live in reserves around the world, confirmed that “some of the most beautiful types of wild animals are found in the UAE.”
This came during a dialogue session entitled “Building the Astronomy of Images”, as part of the activities of the sixth edition of the International Photography Festival “Xposure”, which will continue at Expo Sharjah until February 15, where Jules Sartore discussed his vision aimed at mobilizing tangible efforts to promote wildlife conservation. He explained that each image seeks to motivate the audience to interact and participate in the preservation of wildlife. He said: “Every time I take a portrait of a small or large animal, my goal is to enhance the viewer’s interaction with natural life and the events that take place in it.” During his decades-long career, Sartore published more than 35 stories in National Geographic magazine, for which he risked his life to enable audiences to understand the natural wildlife in different parts of the world. To conserve the environment, we live in an information age where available tools and technologies enable us to reach global audiences directly, and inspiring people to take an interest in endangered wildlife is the first step in the journey to conserve and protect it, and the future of life on Earth is in danger and that is why we must strengthen our efforts to conserve on him”.
Sartore documented in the “Astronomy Pictures” project 12,000 out of 25,000 animal species living in reserves, for which he traveled around the world and visited zoos, nature reserves and animal rescue centers, and the photo was the number 12,000 in the UAE.
Most of the pictures that Sartor took in the studio of endangered and endangered animals living in cages and reserves, and were displayed in a large group of zoos and exhibitions around the world, and vary in size from small like the sparrow that lives in Florida, to the large as the African rhinoceros, and the portraits are available on a white background. Or black for the viewer to contemplate its beauty and natural colors without being distracted by the background colors.