Primarily these images are intended to encourage you to question the ongoing animal cruelty that exists in society today and to reflect on the truths behind the meat industry. However they have more than one meaning and one reason behind them, they can also stand for the way we treat each other as human beings and the way in each women are still being sold like cattle and treated like sexual objects or pieces of meat.



I am not trying to enforce my opinions on the viewer but I am trying to renegotiate the way in which people view the accepted foods in their diet. To raise the question what if it was you? What if it was you that the hunter hunted? Pain is pain, an animal will feel pain just as acutely as a human. Not many people see the processes before the finished product. I want to shed light on aspects that may not have been questioned by some before. To dramatize this pain I have photographed a human model reenacting scenes that an animal would usually suffer through.



This narrative has been inspired by famous author Roald Dahl and his children's classic 'The Magic Finger'. In this book Dahl tells of a story where duck hunters are the victims of magic when their gun is reversed as roles are swapped and the hunting humans are now being chased by the ducks they sought to kill.



Throughout these pages I will alternate with images I have constructed and images that are from a documentary project taken in an Abattoir in 2006 and facts which will tie them together. If through these images and facts I have succeeded in raising awareness in just one person then I will view this work as a complete success.



I would like to extend a special acknowledgement to contributors Laura Lee-Conboy and Gemma Horan whose passion, dedication and hard work ensured the successful completion of the project.



Christine Redmond