Why are there so few people in your photos? What are the elements that make an unforgettable, photogenic dog?Īs a dog photographer looking for interesting variable elements, rare breeds, flat, wrinkled faces, young puppies and a big underbite is like gold for me. I think of it as a yearbook, the culmination of two years of work, the best of the blog, plus outtakes, plus my own stories, plus images people haven’t seen, a chapter in the project. There is something in a coffee-table book, something you can hold and share.

The blog is how people follow me and it gets updated every single day.

It’s like a feed, whereas the book is something you can hold and revisit and explore. The online social-media experience is sort of fleeting and has a short attention span, so you view the image and then you go back to what you were doing and you see another one later. I can do a five-picture series in a book with different aspect ratios and include outtakes that didn’t make sense for a blog. It’s not a real word, but it conveys the simplicity and silliness that lives throughout the project. The name was inspired by the fashion blog The Sartorialist. I consider a “dogist” to be “one who dogs”. We talked to Friedman about his work and the enthusiastic response it has received. It features 1,001 dogs from cities around the world. The book version, titled The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1000 Dogs, is already on The New York Times 's best-seller list.

Along the way, he has posted more than 3,300 images and gathered 1.5 million followers on Instagram, 50,000 followers on Tumblr, 70,000 on Facebook and 20,000 on Twitter. The 27-year-old’s canine adventures started with a blog a few years ago. That’s what makes a great image, taking something ordinary and making it feel dramatic,” said Friedman, who gets down on the dogs’ level despite being 6 feet 3 inches tall. “When I’m shooting photographs of dogs, I’m trying to get them looking right into the lens. What sets his pictures apart is how human he makes the canines seem.įriedman achieves the look by getting down on their level before shooting, making eye contact and creating a connection. Elias Weiss Friedman has photographed thousands of dogs for his blog and book, The Dogist.

The doist