After spending a year in New Jersey looking after her mother who has Alzheimer, Isa Leshko, was confronted with the infamous problem that affects us all, without exception, and hits us with an agonising brutality: death. ´The experience of looking after my mother had a very profound effect on me which forced me to question my own immortality’, Isa said. From this experience arose the need to create the Elderly Animals project, which is a series of photographs of animals in a terminal phase. Isa visited farms and animal sanctuaries all over the United States where she spent several hours with the animals portrayed and visited them several times. ‘To be able to achieve a feeling of intimacy in these photographs, I spent several hours with the animals that I photographed and visited them numerous times’. The Elderly Animals project is in fact a project as much about the mortality of these creatures as it is of our own.’ I created this project to achieve a resolute view on being elderly and mortality’ the photographer explained to P3. Isa continues to travel the country looking for more stories like the ‘Handsome One’, the pure English thoroughbred, and Blue, the Australian Kelpie. Handsome is 33 years old (approximately 95 human years of age); Blue is 19 (approximately 90). The short film about this project produced by Walley Films was awarded the Vimeo Staff Pick Award on Vimeo.