There are roughly 21 funerals a day at Arlington National Cemetery. The majority are simple graveside burials. But for those soldiers who have earned “full honors,” the casket is brought to the grave by a team of horses pulling a caisson.
These horses are the subject of a new series of portraits by 35-year-old Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas now on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The horses seem sad, and Dumas says that’s what drives her work.
“I do think that portraits of animals, specifically, give room for reflection of one’s own emotions. And not just projecting, but maybe … identifying with,” she explains. “The presence of animals can be of great importance for us to process what is happening around us — because they are a different species, but they are living like us.”
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