All the dogs which appear in Platon’s Garage Magazine “Deep Breeding” photo shoot were booked by All Tame Animals. And that’s all we know of them since none were given photo credits. Irritation expressed, we share this photograph that included a Great Dane from that spread. Happily, we’ve since heard from the Great Dane’s owner, Susan Dallas, and can share that his name is “Mowgli.”

For “Deep BREEDING,” Platon’s project from 2014, the photographer departed from his typical roster of “international agitators and blinding stars” to tackle the humanity that is cross species. He was tasked with finding the connections that go beyond speech or pedestrian contact using a visual language. To highlight the connections, each pairing uses designer apparel and “For some it was styling, for others it was a look, an energy, or color,” Platon explains. Like the iconic scene in 101 Dalmatians highlighting the connection between dogs and their owners, Platon is showing us how much like a mirror our animals can be. “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.”

We don’t fully understand much of what was just written. Happily, the pictures speak for themselves.