Back in 2014, the photographer, Platon, created a project for Garage Magazine in which he departed from his usual subject matter “to tackle the humanity that is cross species.” His models were, well, models, but also purebred dogs. Each came with an entourage of owners, groomers, and breeders, while the humans came alone, but ready for make-up and direction.

From the article that appeared on Berstein and Andruilli: “The lights that Platon used for the shoot frightened the dogs, making them more anxious than normal. It forced the models to interact with the animals, putting their energy into calming them rather than posing. In doing so, these beautiful experts let their guards down giving Platon a look into the people behind the famous faces. “Afterwards [the models] came up to me and said, ‘I’ve never been on a shoot like this. Where I was asked my opinion or given any control,’” Platon remembers. What we see is a symbiosis rather than a constructed look. That instinct to care and cooperate was the point, but the serendipity is that a technical feature forced the proof of the thesis.” See more here.