Small Dogs, Shared Rooms

White coats catch the light on the floor and beside a window. A wider view reveals chairs, a patch of green flooring and the loose arrangement of a room shared by people and dogs.

In the frame

A smiling bichon frise on the artificial turf

The dog café room: turf, chairs, and a swing chair

Dogs gathered by the window in the sunlight

Two bichons on the wooden floor

A bichon standing on the turf looking for attention

The most distinct portraits are often the simplest: two dogs standing together, one looking up from below, another framed by a chair. The photographs describe visible gestures; they cannot tell us what an animal was thinking.

Details worth keeping

A fluffy bichon portrait on the turf

Dogs playing together on the artificial turf

A very small dog in a blue jacket among the bigger dogs

Dogs standing on café chairs below the snack shelf

A black poodle sitting beside a café chair

A bichon sitting alone on the wooden floor

From the same collection: A Small Dog, in Two Kinds of Light, A Window-Side Grill Lunch in Seoul.