Conversations with Visual Artists
Episodes from Dog Save The People with a variety of creative disciplines (painting, illustration, photography, fashion design, and filmmaking).
Winnie Au
Winnie Au is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her editorial and fine art work focuses primarily on both people and dogs, sometimes both. Winnie has worked on several dog-related projects over the years – including Canine Chronicles (a book that reimagined famous people owning dogs and how those dogs led to their success), Dog-Friendly New York (a Four & Sons guidebook for dog lovers to explore the city), and her new At Home series (photographing people with multiple renditions of their dog inside their home). Her biggest series, however, is Cone of Shame – with a book releasing September 2024, seven years in the making, that tries to flip the negative stigma around dog cones.
Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman is an illustrator, writer, artist, and designer. She has written and illustrated eighteen children’s books and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, including creating several covers for the magazine that you may have seen before. After initially being afraid of dogs from a young age, Maira eventually had a change of heart and opened up her world to dogs. She realized how much dogs have to teach us, how they’re natural comedians, and how they make us better as people.
Margot Guralnick
Margot Guralnick is the Architecture and Interiors Editor at Remodelista, specializing in home design. Her book through Remodelista, The Low-Impact Home: A Sourcebook for Stylish, Eco-Conscious Living, offers sustainable approaches for styling your home. Margot is also the creator of Dog Walk Diary, an artistic outlet that is daily meditation and collaboration with the plant life of her neighborhood in The Bronx that grew out of walks with Enrique, her dog. Through searching for patterns and ways to showcase the beauty of nature, Margot has developed her own style with “collages that celebrate urban botanical life, so crucial to our own well-being but so often completely unnoticed.”
Antonia Bruce
Antonia Bruce is an artist who started as an independent filmmaker and a founding member of London Video Arts, which had sponsorship from the British Film Institute. She also established and taught an art program at a school in Sweden, as she continued to explore a mixture of mediums in her own work over the years – including everything from drawing to 'camera-less' photography. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions.
Ben Moon
Ben Moon is an adventure, lifestyle, and portrait photographer turned filmmaker. His work is often embedded in the outdoors, including a passion for climbing, surfing, and exploring nature with dogs. He founded Moonhouse production company to develop stories around these experiences. For around 20 years he has worked with Patagonia, where he captures images of people challenging themselves with outdoor activities. In 2015, he released a short film told from the perspective of his dog Denali, a husky and pit mix who was the ultimate outdoor adventure sidekick. In 2020, Ben shared his own perspective in a memoir he wrote called Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime. Ben currently lives near the beach on the Oregon Coast with his dog, Nori, an Australian shepherd / husky mix where he is slowly settling into a new home and community that is just the right place and right time for both of them.
Scott Sternberg
Scott Sternberg is a fashion designer, entrepreneur, and photographer who is best known for creating and running his popular brand Band of Outsiders for over a decade – which was sold around the world at prestigious stores such as Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue. He has won many industry awards such as the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year and Swarovski Award for New Menswear Designer of the Year. Scott has also been featured in press outlets such as the New York Times, GQ, Vogue, W Magazine, Business of Fashion, The New Yorker, and more.
Sally Muir
Sally Muir is an artist, author, and former knitwear designer. At the knitwear business she co-founded, Muir & Osborne, she worked for years as a designer and author. They produced high-fashion pieces that were worn by the likes of people such as Princess Diana. Along with her partner, Joanna Osborne, they also published books on pet accessory knitting patterns, dog-centric knitting pattern books, and a children’s book. This later propelled Sally to begin illustrating dogs while attending art school, and even after her graduation in 2003. Since then, Sally’s artistic muse has continued to be dogs, displaying them in a variety of mediums, which can be found in her book “A Dog A Day,” and her latest, “Old Dogs.” She is also a frequent volunteer at Galgos Del Sol, a dog rescue charity in Spain.
Paola Hernández
Paola Hernández is a fashion designer based in Brooklyn, New York, born and raised in Mexico City, who is inspired by motherhood, yoga, meditation, knitting, weaving, philosophy, contemporary dance, and visual art. Her work – which is currently centered around knitwear – focuses on the expansion of consciousness and the importance of sustainability and new items are released every full moon. As a designer, she has been featured in outlets such as Vogue, Elle, The New York Times, WWD, The Cut, and more.
Elizabeth Lo
Elizabeth Lo is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker born and raised in Hong Kong and a graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. As a director, cinematographer and editor – she is interested in finding new, aesthetic ways of exploring the boundaries between species, class, and unequal states of personhood. Elizabeth’s work includes short films like Hotel 22, Treasure Island, and Mother’s Day. Her debut feature film, Stray, follows three stray dogs in Istanbul and explores how they live and interact without a singular owner but rather with a community of people who look out for them and build relationships across the city.
Isabel Serna
Isabel Serna is the founder of Black Lamb Studio, a Miami-based design studio. She recently published a book, Dog Mom: A Love Story, that she wrote and illustrated. It was based on her experience with her dog, Charlie, a french bulldog who she got when she was 30 and who completely changed her perspective on being a nurturer and caregiver – even preparing her for eventually becoming a loving and caring Aunt to a recently born niece.
Isaac Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi is a fashion designer, author, and entertainer who’s best known for his work in the fashion world with his own brands. While he had a dog at a young age, it was really the first dog he got as an adult that made a significant impact on him. That dog was Harry, his hairy soulmate, who turned into his constant companion and rock. He even met his husband, Arnold, while on a walk with Harry in New York City - where the two are now based with their dogs of Dean and Kitty. Recently, Isaac also put out a memoir called I.M. about his life, including stories of how his dogs have played a role in his path.
We’ve also featured other dog artists on our Instagram over the years.
