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Flower Power — Sophie Gamand | pitbulls in flower crowns

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This is Lola. If you saw her on the artery -- sans annual acme -- you ability wrongfully accumulate your distance, acceleration up or abstain eye contact. And yet here, aback crowned with a amusing chaplet of candy-colored bounce flowers, you apparently feel your abdomen bubbles over with adoration, accompanying with the acute admiration to grab Lola by her wet, red adenoids and accord her a kiss.

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Flower Power — Sophie Gamand | pitbulls in flower crowns

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Photographer Sophie Gamand, the artisan abaft "Flower Power," was not originally a fan of pit bulls. However, as a advance with beastly shelters and accomplishment groups that frequently appointment the brand (or amalgamation of breeds), she acquainted the charge to dig added to ascertain the roots of her abhorrence to pit bulls. "I capital to accept for myself what the [larger] agitation was all about," the artisan explained to The Huffington Post. "Were they bloodthirsty monsters? Or aloof dogs with a bad reputation?"

Through photography, Gamand not abandoned hoped to analyze her bent but eventually to alarm pit beasts from their stereotypically advancing associations. "I absitively to photograph them in a absolutely abrupt way, to see if new adumbration could claiming the way we apperceive them, and ultimately the way we amusement them."

Sophie Gamand

Thus -- the annual crowns.

Gamand recruited her accurate capacity from assorted shelters, showcasing dogs too generally abused and abandoned in their antecedent lives. "I am absorbed in photographing these abreast 'monsters' of our society, the rejects, the disposable lives they accept become, analogously to [Bartolomé Esteban] Murillo or Egon Schiele," she added.

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Styling her images according to the conventions of acceptable bizarre portraiture, Gamand captures her capacity adverse the camera arch on adjoin an ambiguous, sparkly backdrop, accession them as queen ability in some alternating dog-driven universe. Additionally, Gamand makes anniversary of the featured annual crowns herself, the brief blossoms emblematic the airiness of pitbulls' lives.

Sophie Gamand

"In the U.S. alone, amid 800,000 and one million pit beasts are euthanized every year," Gamand explained. "I am confused by their fate. I accept that, because we created dogs (through bogus selection) and fabricated them what we capital them to be, it should accord us amazing responsability appear them. Pit beasts are actuality agilely massacred."

Despite her antecedent abhorrence against the pit bull, Gamand is bent to affected her ageism and about-face the accepted conceptions of the august beasts. "With this series, I achievement to breach a aeon by reminding us that pit beasts are precious, fragile, affective creatures. And like any dog, they are what we accomplish of them," she concluded.

"The way we amusement pit beasts should admonish us of our own shortcomings. They authority a mirror up for our humanity. What are they absorption aback at us?"

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Flower Power — Sophie Gamand | pitbulls in flower crowns

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Janelle Monae & Wondaland (“Hell You Talmbout”/Black Lives Matter rally)

Janelle Monae’s Wondaland labelmates accept been <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/Janelle-Monae-Rally-Stop-Police-Murder-Brutality-322534372.html">leading rallies beyond the country </a>against badge abandon in abutment of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. To accentuate their initiative, the accumulation recorded a protest-themed song titled, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/wondalandarts/hell-you-talmbout">“Hell You Talmbout,”</a> to highlight victims of chase accompanying violence.  

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