Look at the Camera and say “Treat!” Like a dog with a bone, notable pet photographer Ren Netherland discusses how his career as a pet photographer developed and he never looked back. Supermodels step aside. Hanging above the fireplace in a sleepy four bedroom colonial, is a portrait sized picture of Fluffy the cat sporting […]
John Drysdale’s OUR PEACEABLE KINGDOM
British photographer John Drysdale’s pictures can be deceptive. They seem to depict play — spontaneous fun and funniness, exquisite ease and frolic, the real and the surreal cozily at home in the world together. At bottom, Drysdale’s pictures reveal the emotion of love. Brimful of play, his guileless subjects luxuriate in strong and […]
The Seen and Unseen
Liza Case Talks With Worldly Portrait Photographer William Coupon William Coupon’s super-organized d owntown studio is filled with images. Framed prints of his timeless portraits of famous people cover the walls. Surrounding the photographs, the space is full of globes and animals. In addition to his Bichon-Frise, Blanca, who greets you as you walk in, […]
David Tanen Captures The Feline Point Of View
David Tanen has had a passion for photography for many years. He’s been taking pictures for thirty years and has been recognized as an accomplished photographer for twenty years. But it was only very recently that Tanen began to focus on a very specific genre of his craft: feline photography. Raised in New Jersey, his […]
John Drysdale’s My Love Unleashed: A Dog’s Gift of Comfort and Cheer
[First] on the continent of Africa and then throughout Europe, the dog delighted and seduced the merry photographic eye of John Drysdale. This African-born British photographer has been studying and photographing dogs – celebrating their rich personalities, venerating their intelligence and large-heartedness – for decades. His patience and playfulness, his endless capacity for joy and […]
Francisco Schklowsky: Bohemian Photographer of the animal kingdom
I first met Francisco Schklowsky at a book party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Schklowsky was at first very quiet and unassuming. He looked like a cross between a musketeer and a raggamuffin. A bit like Salvador Dali I thought, but with akind, gentle twinkle in his eye. He greatly appreciated the glass of white wine I […]