Anders Petersen: Zoo

Zoo is a wild ride through the oeuvre of Swedish photographer Anders Petersen (born 1944), a racy edit of his work that has animals as its central theme.

Whether they be conscious portraits of animals or a haphazard photographic encounter with a woman's legs in python-print tights, Petersen draws out the animal and animalistic in all that he sees.

At a typical zoo we are the spectators, peering in on creatures as they go about their existence, mostly oblivious to our presence. But in Zoo, we find ourselves both behind and before the bars of the cage--with Petersen as the delighted zookeeper.