LONDON-based photographer Tim Flach has become known over the past ten years for his stunningly stylised portraits (many of them studio-based) of animals. His first book, Equus, was published in 2008, and was followed by Dog Gods and More Than Human. His latest book project, the highly ambitious Endangered, is the product of two years spent travelling not only the world's wild places, but also a number of zoos and conservation projects, to photograph the creatures whose futures are most in peril. His subjects include this extraordinary-looking bird, the shoebill (left), which is said to number fewer than 5,000 in the wild.
The sumptuously printed images from Endangered (Abrams, £50) – from a hyacinth macaw resembling an angel in flight, to a semi-abstract of partula snails – are currently on…
