Your dog, your cat, your people.
You pick the park. I bring the camera.
You pick the park. I bring the camera.
Animals behave when nothing around them is new. So I go where they already live.
Your apartment, your block, the park you walk every morning. No studio, no lights to knock over, nothing that makes a dog nervous or a cat hide under the bed.
I am not going to make your dog sit and look at the lens. I wait until it does the thing it always does. That is the whole trick, and it is why these look like your animal and not like a catalogue.
Bring whoever lives with the animal. Couples, kids, the three roommates who share the dog. Same rule: nobody gets arranged into a line.
Same method with people: I wait for the thing that was going to happen anyway.
My name is Juan David Galvis. I got my first camera in 2018, and animals have been in front of it since the beginning: dogs, cats, horses, in the field and in the house.
I do not direct them and I do not direct you either. I wait, and I know what I am waiting for.
The archive is at davidgalph.com, and new work goes up first on Instagram.
Tell me about your animal and where it likes to be.
A photo of your dog and the park you use is enough to start.