Nina Galicheva is a photographer and horse lover, she has been riding and drawing horses since she was seven years old. She and I are on the same mission, we met in New York City and have become friends. Nina is a passionate chronicler of the struggle to save the New York Carriage Horses, she understands how important it is – for them and for us – that they remain in New York City.
She is a brilliant photographer and designer. “My mission,” she writes, “is to remind people about the special role that horses play in our lives, the teamwork relationship they offer. And we should remember and preserve it for future generations.”
It is my mission too, and the mission of many animal lovers all over the country and the world. You can help save the horses by going to ninagalicheva.com and looking at her powerful art, there is a variety of horse-related work and projects there, and if want something that is not listed – like the calendar shown above that she sent me today – you can e-mail Nina at [email protected].
The campaign against the New York Carriage horses is unjust.
If they horses are banished from New York, they will be in peril, forced onto rescue farms where they will languish idly for the rest of their lives, or, as is likely end up going to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada, their lives destroyed and endangered so that human beings can feel good about “saving” them. Hundreds of honest and hard-working people will lose their jobs and way of life. These are not the people who abuse horses, these are not the horses in need of rescue.
They have broken no laws, been accused of no crimes, violated none of the hundreds of regulations that govern their work.
Nina has sacrificed much of her energy and time on behalf of the horses. She was born in Russia, and worked in Manhattan as a designer, she was out of work for some time and captured the power and connection of the horses in her photography. She is working again now, but still fighting to save these beautiful animals from the people who claim to speak for their rights, but do not.
Please take a look at her website. If you are able and so inclined, please support her work, the mayor of New York has asked the New York City Council to ban the horses, a vote will be taken in four or five months. Your support matters, the horses call to us to remember them, to honor their place in our history, their productive and meaningful lives in the great park in New York City. They bring so much pleasure to so many people, they are loved and well cared for, they are the luckiest horses in the world.
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Please support them if you can. ninagalicheva.com is a great place to start. Her great work shows us what the horses mean to us. (20 per cent of the sales from her Support Working Horses album will go to Blue-Star Equiculture, the horse sanctuary and retirement and home for rescued and retired work horses, including the New York Carriage Horses).