“I remember having the clear feeling that I was taking photos of people,” Italian photographer Sabrina Boem tells me of her first encounter with …
The secret life of cats: 7 photo projects we love
Sabrina Boem photographs the beauty and grace of stray and abandoned cats in Italy, while Masaaki Ito makes friends with the playful street cats of Tokyo. Jason Houge helps a feral cat colony in Wisconsin, and Marcel Heijnen introduces us to the "shop cats" of Hong Kong. Here are just a few of our favorite feline photo stories from recent years.
In the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese photographer Masaaki Ito found warmth and comfort in some unlikely friends: the stray cats …
Cats rule the Internet, this much is clear, but it is exceedingly rare to see serious depictions of the fine beasts. Beautifully counteracting this …
© Marcel Heijnen, ‘Hong Kong Shop Cats’ #5, Hong Kong 2016, Courtesy Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong After decades of living with cats, Dutch …
Istanbul photographer Ekin Kucuk started feeding the stray cats on her street shortly after her beloved dogs of many years died. She was grieving, …
Salvador Dalí, World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins; image courtesy of the Library of Congress. For editor Alison Nastasi, the ties that bind …
The pictures arrive in my email inbox in a mysterious folder titled simply “meow.” Inside, there are exactly twelve photographs of twelve different …