You Are Masters of the Fish and Birds and All the Animals is the first monograph from Shane Rocheleau, printed in an edition of five hundred. 'For the past three years, I have been making work about white American masculinity. I am scarred but exceptionally privileged by it, and thus responsible to address it. White American masculinity is a construct. It is the subtext in detergent and power-tool ads, crystallised at football games and in sermons, described in the design of little boys' clothing. It undergirds our politics and religiosity, and permeates our homes. And it's scary.' Rocheleau continues: 'You may notice that if you aren't white enough or man enough, they'll put you through hell. They'll tease you and shove you down and feel better about themselves for beating you. So am I winning yet, I ask? Have I done my fair share to acknowledge how white American masculinity has shaped me, and to dismantle that shaping?' The book sets photographs in dialogue with prose to map a private and structural inquiry into a construct often left invisible by those who benefit from it.