Nonhomosexualist, nonrenaldiesque photographeuse Michele Abeles:
The earliest image in the group was the one of the black dogs. One evening I was driving to a friend’s place for dinner. In front of me was a truck with these two dogs staring at me from the trunk. Their eyes were shining from the glare of my headlights. I followed the car and asked the owner if I could take a picture of his dogs. He agreed, and I went from there to photographing the dogs in front of a black background. It became a simulation of something familiar, a pet portrait, transformed into something more iconic.