500 Dogs

Hard to believe but Dogs Waiting for Their Humans will soon be posting my 500th photo. Sneak a peek at number 500 here. 

Below is my original project statement:

“I don’t take that many photographs. The fact that this series even exists is still a surprise to me. The pictures were taken in and around my Brooklyn neighborhood beginning in the spring of 2007. I had started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this contemporary urban phenomenon.”

Thank yous go out to Fred Seibert, Carrie Miller and the Frederator interns for your support over the years. 

NY Post-ed

My Dogs Waiting for Their Humans blog is included in an article titled "Pet Projects" in today's New York Post Pulse section. You can read it here. A big "bow wow" to Fred Seibert, Carrie Miller and the interns at Frederator Studios.

Bow Wow Wow!

My Dogs Waiting for Their Humans blog will be featured in an article on the best pet photography blogs in this coming Sunday's New York Post Pulse section.

300!

I can’t believe my 300^th photo has just been posted on “Dogs Waiting for Their Humans”. My approach to the project has been quite casual so I must admit I have surprised even myself with the number. Big thanks to Carrie Miller for all her help.

Below is my original project statement:

“I don’t take that many photographs. The fact that this series even exists is still a surprise to me. The pictures were taken in and around my Brooklyn neighborhood beginning in the spring of 2007. I had started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this contemporary urban phenomenon.”

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Have a Smurfy day!

Who Let The Dogs Out?

After a break, more dogs are finding their way to my Dogs Waiting for Their Humans site.

Who's A Good Boy?!

After a short hiatus, more of my dog photos are appearing on the Dogs Waiting For Their Humans site. (Thank you Fred!)

Dogs Waiting . . . Since the 1970s?!

I just came across this photo I took in the early '70s somewhere around Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Had a good laugh when I saw it and thought about my Dogs Waiting for Their Humans blog. Talk about a dormant seed of an idea!

The 100th Dog

I just photographed my 100th dog waiting for its human. It will be a while before it appears on the DWFTH Tumblr site but I wanted to mark the occasion.

Daily Dogs

Dogs Waiting for Their Humans is currently adding one of my photos almost every weekday -- at least for a while.

Dogs Waiting for Their Humans

The waiting is over! The Dogs Waiting for Their Humans site is now up. I don’t take that many photographs. The fact that this series even exists is still a surprise to me. The pictures were taken in and around my Brooklyn neighborhood beginning in the spring of 2007. I had started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this contemporary urban phenomenon.

Special thanks to Fred Seibert.

Coming This Fall

Dogs Waiting for Their Humans: The Blog

Give Peace A Chance

Photo taken at Vietnam Moratorium, October 15,1969 in Greenwich Village.

Dogs Waiting for Their Humans

This is a selection of photos from a series taken in and around my neighborhood in Brooklyn. So far they have been rejected by The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Time Out New York, Bark, and several other publications. To quote a rejection letter I received from a noted gift book publisher: ". . . Your photographs, though powerful, convey a sense of melancholy; the viewer tends to feel sorry for the dogs who have been left behind, if only temporarily."