I don’t take that many photographs. The fact that this series even
exists is still a surprise to me. The pictures were taken in and
around my Brooklyn neighborhood beginning in the spring of 2007. I had
started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee
shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was
responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this
contemporary urban phenomenon. FRANK OLINSKY is a graphic designer,
art director, and illustrator. He was instrumental in the creation of
the chameleonlike logo and “look” of MTV and has created album
packages for many noteworthy musicians including the Smashing
Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Kronos Quartet, and Philip Glass. The founding
art director, cover designer and contributing editor of Tricycle: The
Buddhist Review, Olinsky is also the co-author/designer of What The
Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs
and author/designer of Buddha Book: A Meeting of Images. He teaches at
Parsons School of Design in New York. “Big thanks to my dear friend
Fred Seibert, without whom this site never would have happened.”
