RUTH K. BURKE
  • Work
  • statement
  • ABOUT/CV
  • SARE Partnership Project
  • Contact
Bond, 2015-present
Digital C-Prints

Licking is an important method of establishing social bonds between cows who are both kin and not*. This ongoing photographic work documents the visual residue of such bonding.

*Sato, Shusuke, et al. “The Influence of Social Factors on Allogrooming in Cows.” Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol. 38, no. 3-4, 1993, pp. 235–244., doi:10.1016/0168-1591(93)90022-h.
© COPYRIGHT DAP STUDIOS LLC. 2009-2025
​ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Work
  • statement
  • ABOUT/CV
  • SARE Partnership Project
  • Contact