Roo Shooting, Take 2
In May of this year I dissapeared for about 3 weeks and headed East to Kalgoorlie, I spent a few days getting outta control drunk in town with my brother then I headed another 400kms east with a couple of total strangers with guns to work as an offsider to a roo shooter.
Why? Morbid curiosity perhaps. To say that I had done it, and to test my theory that if your going to eat meat, then at some point you must find out exactly where it comes from.
..and now I know.
What you have below is just a handfull of the pictures I took on my trip. When I originally went through all these photo's these where overlooked, so what you have is a bunch of ill exposed & grainy photographs taken with my little Powershot s50. Great examples of technical photography they are not, but I think they are interesting, if nothing else.
*Warning* Some of this pictures are quite graphic. vegETARIans beware.
posted by Peter Parsons @ 11:33 AM
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2 Comments:
I'm interested to know. Did they shoot any kangaroos that had babies? and if so what did they do with them? did they just slaughter them too?
I'm trying to not let my love of animals overpower my opinions of these photos, but i have a question, did you set out to glorify this practice or was it more to document it? if so I'm interested in what you belive you have achived from them. One thing I do want to say is that I like the graininess of the photos. :)
love
bridget
Ps. I hope that didn't come accross bitchy. haha
That's definately the worst bit about shooting.
If you look closely at the third picture, Pedro is actually reaching in after a Joey thats about 2/3's grown.
The bigger ones you let run free and hope they do alright, the smaller ones have no hope of surviving without their mothers so basically their screwed, at least this way its quick.
I certainly didn't set out on this journey to glorify the whole deal, nor was I all gung ho "yay lets kill shit!" It just came about as a random job offer while I was watching The Proposal, and I decided that I really wanted to go bush.
The photo's are intended wholy as a way to document my trip, and to just show people something that most people wouldn't even think existed. These guys in into the 100,000's of dollers a year doing this, but its long hard and fuckin cold work.
I'm really not sure what exactly I achieved with these photographs, but thats more so because not that many people have seen the photo's and I havnt got a whole heap of feedback about them. More so i'm just hoping that I managed to take a lot of photo's that create some kind of emotion within people, be it disgust or a strange sense of interest/repulsion.
Not at all friend! I was actually wondering when people where going to ask me those questions and no one really has yet. Come to Perth already!
Pete.
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