Extraordinary Images of Some of the World’s Most Endangered Animals

Flach has constructed a powerful visual record of remarkable animals and ecosystems facing harsh challenges. (Tim Flach, from Endangered by Tim Flach)

[Yahoo! News}- Featuring animals from all around the world, Tim Flach’s latest book ‘endangered’ explores habitats on nearly every continent.

Often, Flach explores the close relationship between animals and humans, and in particular how humanity imposes and reveals its ideals when trying to understand and work with animals.

‘I feel this is the most complete book I have done and I feel very privileged to have done it,’ he said. ‘I do recall a photographer colleague of mine saying one never finishes a book one is only separated from it.

‘I wanted to draw out the character of my subjects. Clearly to do that with a bee or a tree frog eggs demanded an intimacy that can only be arrived at by a magnification, in this particular case times five, thereby showing detail that would not normally be visible with the naked eye.

‘Probably the most dramatic area [when putting together the book] was diving off the Galapagos islands while photographing Hammerhead sharks from 30m down. As a not highly experienced diver, the challenges of high currents and camera with underwater housing was a little bit stressful.

‘My next project is birds,’ he continued. ‘I want to photograph some of the most glamorous, beautiful birds – Birds of prey, Golden Pheasants, Bantoms and Macaws to celebrate the wonderment of birds.’

His other books include Equus, Dogs, Gods and More Than Human. Endangered is his fourth, and most ambitious, book.

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Flach has constructed a powerful visual record of remarkable animals and ecosystems facing harsh challenges. (Tim Flach, from Endangered by Tim Flach)

Tim travelled between forests to savannahs to the polar seas to the great coral reefs to complete the book. (Tim Flach, from Endangered by Tim Flach)

Tim Flach studied fine art at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design. He emerged with a fascination for photography which has since led to numerous commissions, awards, solo exhibitions, and a presence in permanent collections and publications around the world. (Tim Flach, from Endangered by Tim Flach)

Endangered unfolds as a series of vivid interconnected stories that pose gripping moral dilemmas, unforgettably expressed by more than 180 of Flach’s incredible images. (Tim Flach, from Endangered by Tim Flach)

The book took two years to put together, with six months of research first. (Tim Flach, from Endangered by Tim Flach)

Flach said: ‘I feel this is the most complete book I have done and I feel very privileged to have done it.’ (Tim Flach, from Endangered by Tim Flach)