Eileen Udo

Photographic artist
(b. 2004)

Works:

Scarecrows — Politics in My Backyard

Vogelogen

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Scarecrows — Politics in My Backyard

2024 - 2025
Print, publication

“This project investigates a tense and violent relationship between humans and crows—two intelligent species coexisting on contested ground. Through photography, found material, and personal dialogue, the project documents how crows, deemed vermin for damaging fruit crops, become targets of eradication. The artist’s landlord, a farmer, recalls caging dozens of crows after years of fruit loss.
This intimate yet unsettling exchange prompts deeper questions:
What drives humans to punish animals for surviving? Who decides what lives are expendable? The work challenges viewers to confront the ethics of control, coexistence, and the politics embedded in everyday landscapes.”

Written by Shirley Niemans, BioDesign
Challenge instructor.

Scarecrows — Politics in My Backyard has been exhibited in group exhibitions at Landhuis Amelisweerd as a result of the BioDesign Challenge and at FOTODOK during What Grows in Soft Conditions.