The Problem with Wildlife Photography

“The Problem with Wildlife Photography”

In the essay, “The Problem with Wildlife Photography” Bill McKibben inform readers regarding the controversy of wildlife photography. McKibben discuss the disturbance of the animals, the misleading representation, and substantial impression of wildlife photos. McKibben believed that there was an immense of excessive supply of material in demand and that continuing the production of wildlife photography can be enormously disruptive to the lives of the animals. He said “we fail to understand the animals and in particular we fail to appreciate the animals mode of production.” He also expressed the grave doubts about the value of photography emerging from game farms and the more general issue of the ethnic view of the world portrayed by most wildlife photographers. McKibben question the types of images that are being published and the affect that it has on the general public. He mentions the over-abundance of close up shots and in publication and concludes this gives a misleading representation of the wildlife. He stated that the photos from the game farms and zoos give the impression that you could actually get close to a cougar, jaguar, bear, or even a wolf. This make people attempt to imitate what they see and ultimately cause a distress by confronting a normally shy animal. McKibben also believe that wildlife photographers have enough photos from previous years so why not say “That’s Enough?” Mckibben is trying to save the privacy and the meaning of wild animals.

The essay includes many shifts in subject matter and perspective as McKibben moves from

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the problem with wildlife photography to his larger points such as the welfare of the animals. However, the main section would have to be paragraph nine, ten, and eleven. McKibben talk about the label