100 Strong

We Animals Media is now home to 100 photographers. This work began as a one-woman project and we are thrilled our community has grown so large!

These brave storytellers go to great lengths to document farms, slaughterhouses, laboratories, zoos, wet markets and natural disasters to shine a light on our fraught relationship with animals. They work to hold governments and industries accountable. We are thankful to them and to our supporters for being part of this growing movement.

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Factory Farming in Africa

Workers at an industrial egg production farm collect eggs from hens housed in battery cages. Each cage is intended to hold up to three hens, but four or five hens per cage were often visible. Each barn on this farm holds 24,000 hens. Sub-Saharan Africa, 2022. Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

In late 2022, We Animals Media Founder Jo-Anne McArthur visited sub-Saharan Africa to investigate the growth of industrial animal farming in partnership with a local NGO. We are proud to finally share this project.

Read About Jo's Time in the Field

“Risk is Staggering” says Harvard Report

Woman with a mounted deer head. Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

Last week, Harvard Law School and New York University published a new report stating how animal industries in the United States pose serious risk of future pandemics.

The report features 50 photographs by We Animals Media. Our editorial features, collaborations on academic research and investigative journalism continue at the highest levels of news, academia and medical associations.

Read the report here and see the July 6, 2023 New York Times article here.

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Photo of the Month: Terror on the Kill Floor

A terrified pig stares wide-eyed through the bars of a killing pen toward the knife that will slice open her throat seconds later. Photo: Matt Armstrong-Ford / We Animals Media

Matt Armstrong-Ford is one of our new photographers. He was invited to spend time at a slaughterhouse in Zambia where he captured images that attempt to show the experiences of the pigs inside.

Several of his arresting images are eye-level to the animals. When you get up close in this way, you see what they see. In this case, humans towering above. A knife on the floor. Water and blood pooling on the crevassed concrete or sluicing down drains. What pigs may lack in eyesight is more than compensated by their keen sense of smell, over one thousand times stronger than our own. Matt’s images give us a glimpse of their experience, and the more we learn about their complex sentience, the more we can see that the kill floor is a place of terror.

Share Your Miles

We Animals Media filmmaker Kelly Guerin walking through a river affected by Hurricane Florence. Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

You can donate your Aeroplan Miles to help We Animals Media reduce one of our major expenses: air travel.

By donating your miles, you will help our photojournalists and filmmakers get on the front lines of animal suffering. Are you a member of a Star Alliance points program member like United Airlines’ MileagePlus, or do you collect points with a leading loyalty program? You can convert your points to Aeroplan!

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Meet the Team: Sarah

Sarah Janson – Books and Events Coordinator. Photo: Rebecca Janson

In our ‘Meet the Team’ Q&A series, we introduce you to the wonderful individuals running We Animals Media (WAM). Please meet our affable and talented Books and Events Coordinator, Sarah Janson.

Get to Know Sarah

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In Case You Missed It:

Did you now that We Animals Media offers a Masterclass series? We developed this online, self-paced series to help foster the next generation of animal photojournalists. Learn the basic foundations of animal photojournalism by following WAM founder Jo-Anne McArthur as she covers the lessons she has learned from almost two decades in the field.

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