Pets of the Past

Having spent more than twelve years in flea markets, going through shoe-boxes full of other people's personal snapshots, I noticed that there were many of people with their pets. These pictures often stand out as being the most spontaneous, unposed and tender of photographs from the past, which generally tended to be much more formal and hierarchical than what we are familiar with now.

Perfect Example

Judging by the uniform, this looks like the WWI years.