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25-08-2017 / 12:33

Happy National Dog Day!!

August 26th is just one among many other days worldwide dedicated to human's best friend. On that occasion we present to you The Silence of Dogs in Cars and Where Hunting Dogs Rest, two moving and at the same time highly esthetic photography books by Martin Usborne.

 

 

 

The Silence of Dogs in Cars

For his wonderful book The Silence of Dogs in Cars the british photographer Martin Usborne staged dogs of all breeds waiting patiently and lonely, longing and expecting inside of parking cars. The scenes are carefully arranged, always in dawn light, and convey a feeling of being left alone and being unheard. Automatically the viewer identifies himself with the animals shot by Usborne, who always wanted his photographs to have an emotional impact, more than being esthetic.

»These images are about separation. On the one hand, they are about the separation between humans and other animals; the dog in the car could just as well be a bird in a cage or a tiger in a zoo or a fish in a tank. The car represents the brutal way that we often control and silence the animals in our lives. On the other hand, the images are about a deeper and subtler separation, between us and ourselves, I suppose. We all have parts of ourselves that we keep silent, locked away inside; feelings trapped like the dog in the car.« - Martin Usborne

 

 

Where Hunting Dogs Rest

In Spain, every year thousands of hunting dogs are killed or abandoned in the wilderness. In an Andalusian reception centre Usborne took photographs of the rescued animals, whose elegance and dignity can not be harmed by the traces of their long way of suffering. The pictures remind the viewer of the atmosphere in Diego Velázquez' paintings, in the Baroque age the noble Galgos and Podencos were status symbols and treated with appreciation, not like broken tools that have to be disposed. Where Hunting Dogs Rest is a book full of grace and beauty, despite it`s tragic theme.

»The photographs in this book, of both dogs and landscapes, are an attempt to portray the beauty of these animals but also the brutality of their situation and the loneliness of their abandonment. Majesty and misery are intertwined.« - Martin Usborne

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