Guanaco
Lama guanicoe
The beauty we risk losing
Animals in Black
Animals in Black is the Italian photography project founded in 2015 by Gian Luca Partengo. It offers original photographs and fine-art prints of real animals portrayed against a black background.
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Latest prints
A selection of the most recent portraits. Each subject, its own story.
Red-bellied lemur
Eulemur rubriventer
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Mongoose lemur
Eulemur mongoz
Siberian tiger
Panthera tigris altaica
Siberian tiger
Panthera tigris altaica
Siberian tiger
Panthera tigris altaica
Siamang
Symphalangus syndactylus
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Four classes, dozens of species portrayed on black. Explore the photographs and discover who we risk losing.
The project
A drop of hope, printed on paper
All Animals in Black photographs were taken in wildlife parks across Northern Italy. An original post-production process developed by Gian Luca Partengo isolates each animal against black and focuses on its face, muzzle and posture without altering its identity.
10% of the value of every print is set aside and donated to WWF or other organisations committed to protecting animals and endangered species.
Conservation
The state of the planet, in numbers
Data from the IUCN Red List: a snapshot of how much we risk losing.
Share of threatened species by class (IUCN Red List). · Updated on 2026-06-25
48,600
Species at risk of extinction
28%
Species assessed globally