Shane Russeck

"To the Heavens" 45x60 Last Photograph of Orca "Granny" Killer Whale Photography

2016

Shot in the off the San Juan Islands this is the only known image of a double synchronized breach with two adult Orcas. This was a once in a lifetime event. This is the first time t...

Shot in the off the San Juan Islands this is the only known image of a double synchronized breach with two adult Orcas. This is the only time this image has been offered for sale. ...

Shot in the off the San Juan Islands this is the only known image of a double synchronized breach with two adult Orcas. This was truley a once in a lifetime event. This is the first...

This is a contemporary photograph of a Kodiak Bear. This was shot on Kodiak Island in 2019. 60x40 Edition of 10 Signed and numbered Archival pigment paper Framing available. Inqui...

Orca Mist British Columbia, 2018 Edition of 20: 24” x 36” (61 x 91.4 cm) - $3,500 Edition of 15: 31” x 46.5” (78.7 x 118.1 cm) Edition of 10: 40” x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm) Edition of...

Sepia-toned gelatin silver print Signed and numbered, verso 24 x 20 inches, sheet (Edition of 35) 39 x 26 inches, sheet (Edition of 15) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Horenstein’s creatures are decontextualized. They appear without the backdrop of the natural landscape, outside even the artificial world of the zoo or aquarium, and devoid of their true color. As a consequence, the images are truly arresting; and in both a literal and a metaphorical sense, we see these animals as we have never seen them before. We notice details, and Horenstein focuses our vision on the unexpected: the foot of an elephant, the eye of an octopus, the hair on the back of a gibbon’s head, the pattern of feathers on a bird’s neck. He plays with scale: the rear end and tail of a rhinoceros occupy the entire picture frame. We see these as if through a magnifying glass. His pictures challenge us to look more closely, to ask questions and make connections. We think about form and function: the relationship between an elephant’s foot, a horse’s hoof, and our own toes. We ponder modes of sensing and communication: the signals that hold together a school of fish. Examining these photographs, we become scientists and discoverers. “In some respects, Horenstein’s work continues a centuries-old tradition of natural history illustration in the realm of photography. In natural history illustration, animals are often presented in shallow space with limited landscape, sometimes even against a blank page, in order to promote close examination and study of detail. But as much as these photographs promote scientific inquiry, they are more than scientific illustration. Animals were the subjects of our first art and our first metaphors; and freed from the constraints of space and time, many of Horenstein’s creatures remind us of the lost magical connection between the ‘animal world’ and our own. They are unsettling and they mesmerize. They transcend and transgress familiar boundaries between subject and object. Who is observing whom? The Komodo dragon looks at us with piercing eyes. We’re transfixed by the gaze of the harbor...

"Winter Reverie" Minke whale surfaces momentarily against the sea ice and backdrop of mountains. The limited edition print series Northern Dreams is a tribute to one of the most sp...

"Reverence" Minke whale surfaces momentarily against sea ice in very still, reflective water. The limited edition print series Northern Dreams is a tribute to one of the most spect...