Feline

Tim Flach is a photographer best known for his stylized portraits of animals, and for the originality that he brings to capturing animal behavior and characteristics. In recognition of his work, he has received numerous awards, including an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society and an honorary doctorate from the University of Arts London (Norwich). He is also a senior research fellow (artist in residence) at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, and serves as president of the Association of Photographers. His photographs are showcased in books, exhibitions, and galleries around the world. Feline will be Flach’s seventh book following Equus (2008), Dogs (2010), More Than Human (2012), Endangered (2017), his first children’s book Who Am I? (2019), and Birds (2021). He works in London, where he lives with his wife and son.

Jonathan Losos is an author and biologist renowned for his experimental research demonstrating that evolution can be studied as it happens. Losos has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He has received numerous awards including the Edward Osborne Wilson Naturalist Award as well as fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial and David and Lucille Packard Foundations. Losos is the author of The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa (2023), Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance and the Future of Evolution (2017), and Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles (2009). He is the William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.