Meet the Man Who Has Photographed Thousands of Pups — The Dogist

By Irina Dvalidze

Updated on 12/29/2015 at 2:55 PM

Elias Weiss Friedman, aka The Dogist has a special talent for capturing his one-of-a-kind interactions with the dogs of New York City. The photos that garnered him a following of over 1.4 million on Instagram have become a New York Times bestseller in their analog form. We shadowed the canine photographer to find out how he captured the arresting dog portraits that have made him internationally recognized.

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