For more than a decade, Pit Buehler created his portraits in the world's great circus houses - in Moscow's Nikulin Circus, in the traditional Circus Ciniselli in St. Petersburg, in the Circus Krone in Munich and at the International Circus Festival in Monte-Carlo. In this special environment, between the circus ring and magic, images are created that go far beyond the documentary.

In the style of James Cameron's Avatar a similarly fragile symbiosis is revealed in this series of portraits: one lives through the other, supported by trust and closeness, but at the same time characterized by control and power. With sensitive lighting and an intimate visual language, Buehler captures the relationship between humans and animals - a web of trust and dependence, closeness and control, carrots and sticks. His photographs open up a space in which this tension becomes visible and invite the viewer to directly experience the quiet intensity of this connection.