Almost like people. Animals in pictures by Tim Flach

These portraits — there is no other way to say it - are full of almost human emotions.

Tim Flach was born in 1958 in London and still lives in the British capital. After completing his Master's degree at St. Martin's School of Art in 1983, where he studied photography and applied painting, Tim took up advertising photography. He has worked with Adidas, Cirque du Soleil, Jaguar, Sony and other major customers. But the real fame came to him when he started working with animals. The first time Tim Flach tried to shoot animals at the age of eighteen in the London Zoo. But, according to him, it took another ten years before something started to work out.

Life magazine described the photographer's artistic method as follows: "Tim Flach uses the principles of creating a human portrait and a vocabulary of gestures and looks that echo our own, playing on our predispositions and sympathies."

"We worked under a fine drizzle of droppings, because there were two hundred mice hanging there per square foot. Very soon we were all completely covered with disgusting slime, and the photographic equipment was sliding in our hands. Add to this the terrifying stench of ammonia, from which even respirators could not save, and the heat - it was ten degrees hotter inside than outside, and it was happening in Texas. In addition, it turned out that that cave, in addition to mice, sheltered biting beetles, which also did not help much in the work. As soon as we finished shooting, we immediately climbed into the nearest lake," Tim said about shooting bats.