Anne Geene /Arjan de Nooy - Bestiary

Bestiaries are ancient manuscripts that weave together tales of every kind of creature—real or imagined—alongside stories of stones and trees.
Rather than striving for naturalistic description, these texts cast the world as a mirror of divine truth. Offering moral lessons through the lives and the natures of beings great and small, all bestiaries trace their lineage to a Greek work known as Physiologus. Written sometime between the second
and fourth centuries AD by an unknown author, it grew into one of the most cherished and widely read books of the Middle Ages. In this work, Geene and De Nooy create a contemporary

photographic bestiary inspired by that ancient source. Drawing on quotations from a recent translation and blending found images with their own, they breathe new life into this mystical text. Though their approach is neither Christian nor didactic, the behaviours revealed by the creatures in Bestiary still offer stories from which moral insights may quietly emerge.