Shake

Product Description

A few years ago Carli Davidson was just another young photographer. To make money she worked as a zookeeper; & because she is a fervent animal activist, she volunteered at animal rescues. In 2010 she purchased a high-speed shutter camera & had the idea of combining her two passions. She began photographing the rescue dogs in mid-motion, pausing them at a thirteen-thousandth of a second. She called the project Shake & posted a few pictures on Facebook. They quickly spread virally, reposted over & over. In 2011 a Shake photo was featured in Photo District News, the award-winning magazine for the professional photography industry, & won the prestigious ` Best Photo` award. Photographers were instantly impressed. By the third quarter of 2011, Carli`s website was getting 30, 000 hits a month. She only had a few Shake photos up, but everybody wanted to see them. Then the `big publications` began to write about her: Huffington Post, New York Times, Vanity Fair Italy, to name just a few. In a 90-day period her site spiked to 8.5 million views. People were visiting the site from all over the world & the fan letters came pouring in. Shake is the answer to the fan requests Carli received over & over again. Everybody wanted more Shake photos. One hundred dangerously adorable models posed for the book. Sixty-five of them, including the likes of Scooby the Rottweiler, Greta the Shi Tzu, Twinkie the Jack Russell Terrier, & the famous, mixed-breed Ramen Noodle were selected. Two photographs of each dogs are featured side-by-side in the book to caption the motion of their shakes. One photo shows the dog beginning to turn; the other shows its wild hair & fabulous facial expression mid-twist. Many of the dogs are shaking off water; that is captured in the photographs too. The New York Times said it well when they described Carli`s work as a ”hilarious portrayal of flying fur, flopping jowls, & bulging eyes.” Shake will feature an introduction by Carli explaining the inspiration behind the project & her experience shooting the dogs. This will be followed by her spectacular photography of each dog shaking. The back of the book will feature each dog in a non-shaking pose, with name, breed mixes, & personality traits from their owners & the rescues. National publications such as National Geographic, Rolling Stone, People, Discovery, & Huffington Post have already expressed interest in featuring the book. Nikon Camera is also a staunch supporter of Carli. They gave her the camera she used to shoot the photos in the book. She is a favorite of their European headquarters, particularly their UK office, & was asked to shoot the Olympics for them. Three of her Shake photos are in a press-kit they sent out about her that went to journalists at magazines in 33 countries.