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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Wendy McMurdo RSA, Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Wendy McMurdo RSA

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Digital print
Paper size: 30 x 30 cm
Image size: 23.5 x 23.5 cm
Edition of 25
£ 540.00

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This print is priced unframed. Please enquire for framing options. This print is available in one further size of 80 x 80 cm. The Artist: "This image of a diving Peregrine Falcon set against a diorama of the coast line of East Lothian was produced from a large archive of images shot in and around museum collections over the last two decades. Whilst my main focus of most of these past museum visits had been to photograph school parties and in particular, children using the various museum displays, I’d often shoot the surrounding objects and cases too. "Looking back at this photographic archive now, it was easy to see how much has changed since they were shot. The culture of museum display itself has dramatically shifted (the hand-painted diorama featuring the coastline of East Lothian here, is long gone for example) but also many of the cased specimens captured then have since dramatically declined in terms of population numbers. "It seems particular shocking to think about how many birds in particular have become extinct or reached the brink of extinction during this period. As Errol Fuller wrote in Extinct Birds: "'Perhaps the very idea of the bird becoming extinct is something that is particularly startling. Their capacity for flight and their very familiarity – the fact that they live so noticeably all around us make it doubly difficult to come to terms with the idea that a species should no longer exist'."
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