Billboards. They’re everywhere, whether you like it or not, so why not use them to help animals? Jane Casteline & Shannon Johnstone join us this week to discuss their project, Picturing Pigs, and the challenges they had to overcome to get their message onto billboards in the home of factory farming and why this is a form of activism that we can all get involved in.
Shannon Johnstone’s photographic work deals with themes that reclaim what has been discarded and make visible that which is hidden. Her project, “Landfill Dogs,” was featured on ABC World News and CNN. Her newest award-winning work is entitled “Roadside Zoo.” She is a three-time recipient of Creativity Grants from the Culture and Animals Foundation, most recently, along with Jane Casteline, for the billboard advocacy project “Picturing Pigs.” She is also a tenured professor at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a PhD candidate in Human-Animal Studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Jane M. Casteline’s photography explores the nuances and unique qualities of the natural, human, and built environment through photography, including her current project, “Mushrooms in Raleigh,” and a documentary photography series currently in development on the journey of homeless Turkish dogs from abandonment to rescue to adoption. She is also a research administrator at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.
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