It’s always a joy when photographer Ave Pildas’s “PixFix” email missives pop into your inbox—they’re simply a lovely image, often relative to the season or day, taken from his long and fruitful career. Obviously when we saw this white elephant, we had to share it. This was shot in 1981 during a road trip, and the little elephant was discovered outside Las Vegas casino Circus Circus, the image part of Pildas’s Animal Antics series. “It documents my observations over forty years of humans all over the world interacting with animals,” he explains. “We love them as pets, revere them as creatures of nature, gawk at them in zoos, consume them as food, hunt them as sport, display them as trophies and adorn ourselves with their skins and fur. They serve us in many ways. My subjects include not only living specimens, but also our representations of animals and monuments to them. The images are inspired by my love of animals.”
