'Combined with artificial habitats and props, the bears look very awkward. It's a forced reality.' (From 2017)
"Combined with artificial habitats and props, the bears look very awkward," says Shen Wen Lo, who spent a year photographing polar bear exhibits throughout Europe and China forThis is true of all zoo animals, but Wen Lo thought polar bears most obviously conveyed the point. He noticed the strange dichotomy of this forced reality while visiting the Bronx Zoo in 2011 and seeing a polar bear pacing alongside a shallow pool in a concrete enclosure.
Once on location, Wen Lo spent five or six hours photographing the bears and zoo patrons gawking at them. Later, he digitally combined multiple images to create his panoramas, each of them revealing the artifice of trying to make a polar bear in captivity look like a polar bear in the wild.
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