<p><a href="https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/isabella-la-rocca-gonzalez" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Isabella La Rocca Gonzalez</a> is an artist, writer, photographer, teacher and activist. She describes her work as &quot;part of a long tradition in art and photography: to bring to light and find beauty in the hidden, unconscious, or disregarded. As the daughter of emigrants from Mexico and Italy respectively, I strive to reconcile values from my Indigenous roots with my European heritage.&quot; Her artistic work is richly entangled with her ecofeminist, total liberation activism.</p><p>Her book of photographs and creative nonfiction, &quot;<a href="https://censoredlandscapes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Censored Landscapes</a>&quot;, which exposes sites of animal agriculture, was published in December 2024 by <a href="https://lanternpm.org/book/censored-landscapes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lantern Publishing</a>. The book has been widely endorsed, including by previous Sentientism guests <a href="https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/jo-anne-mcarthur">Jo-Anne McArthur</a>, <a href="https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/marc-bekoff">Marc Bekoff</a>, <a href="https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/robert-grillo">Robert Grillo</a>, <a href="https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/jonathan-balcombe">Jonathan Balcombe</a> and <a href="https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/lisa-kemmerer">Lisa Kemmerer</a>.</p><p>In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and &quot;how can we make a better world?&quot;</p><p>Sentientism answers those questions with &quot;evidence, reason &amp; compassion for all sentient beings.&quot; The video of our conversation is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://youtu.be/sOYE60tOh2A?si=Fhq2FACI_S5n1pq-" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">here on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>.</p><p>00:00 Clips“It took me 11 years to create the book… I love the tradition of American landscape photography. So I decided to just find as many different kinds of farms where animals are bred, exploited, and slaughtered and photograph the context… When you photograph an animal or a person, it&#39;s almost an act of empathy because you know when you&#39;re really in the flow of it, you are the thing you&#39;re photographing... My utopian world would be vegan. There&#39;s just no way that a world that I imagined would exploit or slaughter animals in any way, shape, or form… The path to that was very imaginable.”00:51 WelcomeEndorsements of &quot;Censored Landscapes&quot; by previous Sentientism guests Jo-Anne McArthur, Marc Bekoff, Mark Grillo, Jonathan Balcombe and Lisa Kemmerer.02:55 Isabella&#39;s IntroVeganism, art, photography, writing.Censored Landscapes: “It took me 11 years to create the book.”“It started because I photographed an abandoned egg farm where 50,000 hens had been abandoned in a battery cage egg farm.”“I don&#39;t have the bravery to infiltrate these facilities and go in and expose the cruel practices of these facilities, but I love landscape photography.”“I decided to just find as many different kinds of these kinds of farms where animals are bred, exploited, and slaughtered, and photographed the context.”Photographing in sanctuaries: “So that these animals are represented as individuals”07:03 What&#39;s Real?23:28 What Matters?30:29 Who Matters?49:37 A Better World?01:16:00 Follow Isabella:- <a href="https://glissi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Glissi</a></p><p>- <a href="https://censoredlandscapes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Censored Landscapes</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eyelarocca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@eyelarocca</a></p><p>- <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/eyelarocca.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Isabella on BlueSky</a></p><p>And more... full show notes at <a href="https://sentientism.info/">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sentientism.info⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>.</p><p>Sentientism is “Evidence, reason &amp; compassion for all sentient beings.” More at <a href="https://sentientism.info/">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sentientism.info⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>. 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