Lost Animals

The exhibition and book project LOST ANIMALS consists of 12 landscape stagings and 12 portraits. In global locations, wild animals look around curiously in the urban environment of humans. Classically photographed in black and white. Curious giraffes discovering an airport, or a chimpanzee father showing his son Paris, and as viewers we are confronted with questions about our own origins. The abstract structures of our self-created, new habitat, far from nature, stand in stark contrast to our former fellow inhabitants, who have remained in their old environment, nature.Tom Nagy's partly humorous and staged pictures are by no means accusing, but rather irritating.surrealistic situations that look as if they were taking place in reality. Tom Nagy's epically staged pictures thrive on the interplay between reality and fiction.