Louise Jorgensen
I am a Toronto-based animal rights activist and animal photojournalist. For nearly two decades I've dedicated my life to advocating for, and capturing and highlighting the hidden victims trapped within our food system. I hope that my photos will draw viewers to connect with them, to encourage empathy, and to see them as individuals and equals, not objects for us to use, exploit, or kill.
As a child, I had a deep connection with non-human animals. There was never a question, for me, whether or not they are sentient. I do this work because I want others to see what I see when I look into the eyes of a nonhuman animal. To see that there is someone equal to you and I looking back from behind those loving and joyful, or frightened and pleading eyes. I strive to capture emotion in eyes and in body language to help others to feel what the individual is feeling and to understand that they, like us, are emotional, sentient beings with the same capacity to feel joy, love, and to suffer.