Four&Sons, a print and online publication out of Portugal, chronicles the work of interesting people and their interesting dogs in their respective worlds of art, photography, music, and literature – anywhere dogs and culture collide.  The publication won Best Photography at The Stack Awards last year, in part because the subject matter – dogs – don’t always cooperate the way photographers would like.

In their eighth issue, photographer Winnie Au presents her “neck collar” project in which she has taken the “cone of shame” and made it “art.”  To us, Au’s idea has an Andy Warhol “Campbell Soup Can” feel to it in that she has taken an everyday object (to a dog owner, anyway) and made us look at it differently. We suspect that to a dog, however, an E-collar is an E-collar.

Stylist Marie-Yan Morvan fashioned the e-collars from feathers, fuzzy fabrics,  and pretend flowers. According to the magazine, each piece was modeled by a different dog, “such as “Kyrie,” the Weimaraner who fell asleep in her cone, and “Lux,” the Pit Bull who couldn’t sit still.”  The series will turn into a calendar this year, with the proceeds donated to a charity that provides funding for dog surgeries.

One of the project photographers which is available as a poster (but as we write, only one is left in stock). Get it here.