Outrage over elephant painted pink in India for photoshoot
Ana Maria Rus
Indian forest officials have started an investigation following social media outrage over a Russian photographer’s photoshoot for which a 65-year-old elephant was painted bright pink. Animal rights activists accused Julia Buruleva, a Barcelona-based conceptual photographer, of animal cruelty for painting the tusker in pink colour for a photoshoot in Jaipur city in the western state of Rajasthan. The images show a woman, coloured in pink, sitting atop the painted elephant at an abandoned Hindu
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