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Friedman is the columnist abaft "The Dogist," a photo-documentary alternation with added than 2.8 actor followers on Instagram and two books, "THE DOGIST" and "THE DOGIST PUPPIES." Since ablution "The Dogist" 4 years prior, Friedman's photographed added than 50,000 pups from all about the world.
Becoming a traveling dog columnist sounds like the quintessential dream job, but Friedman said it wasn't an autogenetic career choice.
"No one array of told me that was a possibility," he said.
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Friedman's ancestor alien him to photography, and as a child, he'd booty pictures of the ancestors dogs. But as a career physician, his ancestor saw photography as a hobby, and so Friedman additionally started developed activity added commonly -- he went to school, confused to New York City and formed as a cast strategist.
"That was, array of retrospectively, an alarming affair for me," he said. "It array of accustomed me to dust my camera off."
Soon after, he boarded on his aboriginal of abounding "dog safaris" and acquaint pictures of the dogs he met as "The Dogist." It took off about immediately, Freidman said.
["400"]BONUS: HEAR FRIEDMAN'S "FREAKY" DOG IMPRESSIONS
"The Dogist" is accepted for its signature portraits of dogs who arise to affectation like artery appearance stars. As any right-minded dog buyer knows, accepting a dog to absolutely affectation is no "w-a-l-k" in the park.
"They don't absolutely appetite their account taken," Freidman said. "Even admitting it seems like they do."
["600"]He additionally sports kneepads that accomplish it easier for the 6-foot-something Friedman to bend bottomward to a dog's level. He'll accomplish dog noises or move the tennis brawl about his lens to abduction the appropriate moment. Friedman said he usually looks for eye contact, as it appears added intimate, added human. But these pictures are appropriate because clashing humans, a dog's affect is consistently candid.
Along the way, "The Dogist" has met abounding dogs with all kinds of stories, including a basset who ate a $100 and pooped it out complete and a lab with no eyes who could still comedy fetch. He's alike let a German Shepard chaw his arm - with a chaw sleeve on, of course.
He additionally advocates for dogs in need. Back ABC7NY met Friedman, he was photographing dogs at the ASPCA Adoption Center on the Upper East Side as allotment of Adopt a Shelter Dog Month.
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"It's important to apprehend that dogs aren't consistently couch potatoes," he said. "They appear from all altered backgrounds ... so it's important to represent them all and accord them the best shot."
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