Kaylee Greer
Digital Camera UK|March 2023
Never work with animals, so the old saying goes - but Niall Hampton finds someone who didn't get the memo...
Niall Hampton
Kaylee Greer

Having delivered an engaging and very colourful Super Stage talk at The Photography Show last September, it would have been negligent of us not to have brought Kaylee Greer's work to the wider Digital Camera audience. Judging by the length of the queue at her post-talk Dogtography book signing, it was clear that there is a lot of interest on this side of the pond in Greer's work, which offers a distinctive aesthetic approach and strives to bring out the character and soul of her inevitably cute canine subjects.

Taking photos of a dog can be relatively straightforward, especially if it's the family pet, but Greer's work is next-level. To find out more about how she established, finessed and found an audience for her characterful captures, we caught up with Greer for a lesson in 'dogtography'...

What first attracted you to photography?

Photography is like a magical superpower. It's this surreal ability to freeze a moment, and I was always so drawn to the possibilities of that. Photography lets us immortalise a tiny slice of time, slide it in our pockets, and keep it by our hearts forever. Then, we can pull that image from our pocket at any time to look at when we need it most. Photography is persuasive. It can change narratives and rewrite the endings to stories. It can help humanity form entirely different opinions. It's this beautiful and intoxicating process with limitless possibilities for how it can change and inspire, and that drew me in from the very first moment I understood the concept of what it was.

Were there any photographers who inspired you?

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