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Interview with Czechoslovakian Animal Liberation Activist and Photographer Lukas Vincour

From WeAnimalsMedia.org
July 2022

Animals came first and then photography. I went to protests, we visited animal farms, and there wasn’t really anyone to document it. That’s why I took a camera in my hand and recorded everything. Since then, investigating and documenting animals has made tremendous sense to me. The camera is my non-violent weapon to help liberate animals.

Read this interview in Czech HERE.

We Animals Media contributor Lukas Vincour is an animal liberation activist and a documentary photographer from the Czech Republic. He is co-founder of the vegan organization Zvirata Nejime (We Don’t Eat Animals) and one of the co-authors and directors of a documentary film about animal abuse in the Czech Republic, Svedectvi (Testimony). Through his work he is trying to draw attention to the suffering of innocent beings.

We spoke with Lukas to learn more about his thought-provoking work.

We Animals Media (WAM): Which came first for you: animals or photography? Can you tell us a little about your path to where you are today, and why you document what you do?

Lukas Vincour (LV): Animals came first and then photography. I went to protests, we visited animal farms, and there wasn’t really anyone to document it. That’s why I took a camera in my hand and recorded everything. Since then, investigating and documenting animals has made tremendous sense to me. The camera is my non-violent weapon to help liberate animals.

A male goat used for semen collection stands restrained by the neck inside a semen collection station at a goat farm. Czechia, 2020. Lukas Vincour / Zvířata Nejíme / We Animals Media

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