Jo-Anne McArthur

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Full Name	Jo-Anne McArthur
Occupation	Photojournalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 23, 1976(1976-12-23)
Age	48
Birthplace	Ottawa
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Jo-Anne McArthur Biography

Jo-Anne McArthur is one of the most popular and richest Photojournalist who was born on December 23, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Jo-Anne McArthur (born on December 23, 1976) is an Canadian photographer humane educator animal rights activist, and an author. Her work is well-known by the We Animals project, a photographic project that documents human interactions with animals. It resulted in an organization called the We Animals Archive (a photo archive) as well as We Animals Media (a media agency). In The We Animals Humane Education program McArthur gives talks on animal interactions in different settings, including educational ones and, by way of The We Animals Archive, she offers photographs as well as other media to those who work to assist animals.

McArthur was McArthur was “main human subject” of the documentary film of 2013 The Ghosts in Our Machine produced by Liz Marshall. The film does not feature the shocking images of many documentaries focusing on animals’ rights, including Earthlings and Animal Rights, which means this film “takes an almost arthouse approach, resulting in a film that’s more a meditation on suffering and the relationship between humans and other species, than an angry, didactic diatribe”. In Variety The critic Peter Debruge said that

McArthur was the primary subject of the 2013 documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine, directed by Liz Marshall, and with Keri Cronin, she is the founder of the Unbound Project, which aims to celebrate and recognize female animal activists. Her first book, We Animals, was published in 2013, and her second, Captive, was published in 2017. A third, HIDDEN, is forthcoming. McArthur has been awarded a range of commendations for her photography and activism, including the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice award.

McArthur appeared in the top 50 of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Champions of Change contest, and on More’s fourth annual “Fierce” list. She has also been awarded the Institute for Critical Animal Studies’s 2014 Media Award, and the Toronto Vegetarian Association’s 2013 Lisa Grill Compassion for Animals Award (with Liz Marshall). Farm Sanctuary awarded her the 2013 “Friend of Farm Animals” award, and listed her as one of their “Heroes of Compassion” in 2016.

McArthur was born within Ottawa, Ontario, and she studied Geography as well as English in The University of Ottawa. She made the decision to study photography after she took an elective course in black and white photography while at university. She initially began her photography journey motivated by artistic pursuits, however her motivations changed later, and she came to view her camera as an “tool for creating change”. Her previous work with animals was part of the genre of street photography. However, she is now primarily photographing animal species in cages, and sometimes in the shadows. As of 2010, traumatic nature of her work resulted in getting diagnosed with post- traumatic-stress disorders, however, the condition has improved since then. Sometimes, her photographs are published in anonymity.

Jo-Anne McArthur Net Worth

Jo-Anne McArthur is one of the richest Photojournalist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jo-Anne McArthur 's net worth $3-5 Million. * (Last Update: February 3, 2024)

McArthur came up with McArthur’s We Animals project in around 1998 after a meeting with a macaque that was chained to a window sill in Ecuador. She took pictures of the monkey because she was disgusted by the cruel treatment as well as “knew that the way [she] saw our treatment of animals was important, and [she] wanted to share that point of view”. On the website of the organization, We Animals is described as follows:

McArthur has been speaking in schools since 2008. In 2014 an award of a grant was made to McArthur to help develop his We Animals Humane Education project through The Pollination Project and the Thinking Vegan. With this program, the We Animals Humane Education Program, McArthur offers a variety of programs at schools as well as at universities and other settings. The goal of the program is to “foster awe, curiosity and critical thinking about our relationships with animals” and in order to “instill reverence, respect and responsibility” and to inspire compassion for animals, to “create gentler stewards of the earth” and inspire people to become “agents of positive change”.

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McArthur’s Captive is a powerful, visual survey of zoo animals and their physical conditions of captivity. But precisely because it examines so many different zoos and animals, its cannot provide significant insight either into the subjectivity of captive animals, or the ideological and economic function of zoological gardens. The merging of close and sustained photographic observation and detailed institutional history and critique is what is most lacking in the current generation of zoo books. That’s a worthwhile project for McArthur and her peers in the future.

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Jo-Anne Ranked on the list of most popular Photojournalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Jo-Anne McArthur celebrates birthday on December 23 of every year.

McArthur’s third book, HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene, is about “our conflict with non-human animals around the globe, as depicted through the lenses of thirty award-winning photojournalists”, with a foreword written by Joaquin Phoenix. It will be released in 2020.

Interesting Facts about Jo-Anne McArthur

1. Jo-Anne McArthur is a Canadian photojournalist and animal rights activist.
2. She is the founder of We Animals Media, a non-profit organization.
3. McArthur has documented animal exploitation in over 60 countries.
4. Her work has been featured in major publications such as National Geographic and The Guardian.
5. In 2013, she published her book “We Animals” featuring her photography work.
6. McArthur was awarded the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award.
7. She co-produced and appeared in the documentary film “The Ghosts in Our Machine”.
8. McArthur advocates for ethical treatment of animals through education and awareness campaigns.
9. She has received numerous awards for her activism and photography work.
10. Her mission is to create empathy towards animals through visual storytelling.