How does the process of milk production work?
Why do cows produce milk in the first place?
What is our role as humans in the production steps and how are these connected to each other?

Confronted with these questions, I wanted to get a clear understanding of the dairy industry. The work Cow‘s Milk (2018) is the result of my year-long research and photographic documentation of various cow farms, facilities and institutions. The series portrays the industrialized process of cow‘s milk production, following all the steps along the way:

the semen production bank, where the semen of bulls is being collected
the preparation of the semen in the lab
the artificial insemination of the cows
the birth of the calves
the milking and the slaughtering of the cows
the processing of the dairy in the dairy factory


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