Jilly Bennett The Queen Of Riviera dog photography. I meet her at L'Entrepot Gallery in Monaco.

Описание: Jilly Bennett The Queen Of Riviera dog photography. I meet her at L'Entrepot Gallery in Monaco. Jilly is a phenomenal 81 years young and has been photographing dogs and their owners for well over a decade in some of the most fantastic locations on the French and Italian Riviera. Naples, Genoa, Gorbio, Menton, Monaco, Villefranche… you name it she's been there capturing fantastic images. Much of Jilly's life was spent in the world of dogs, first as a breeder and exhibitor and later as an International judge of Old English Sheepdogs.

Later, when she moved to a French hill village overlooking the Mediterranean near to the Italian border, her life became one of caring for dogs in my home when their humans go away, something she loves to do. "But I've also been blessed to be able to give a forever home to a string of unwanted and abused dogs - I'm always drawn to the oldies so it's no wonder they get to the sofa first!

We rescue them but really it is they who rescue us. It seems to me a perfect arrangement.

One of the many joys of photography is seeing my work and these 'stories' in exhibitions, in magazines, on posters, or people's walls. I am currently working on a book that brings the moments and the stories together. It is the interaction between a dog and his or her human that fascinates me and it's that emotion I love to capture with my camera.

Dogs, life on the streets - and photography. Emotion, feeling - that's what it's all about..."