We’re all the time looking out for the most effective artwork items for artistic pals, so we checked in with photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, whose annual themed calendar all the time brings us pleasure, and normally a number of chuckles (earlier editions have concerned pin-up guinea pigs, leaping cats and domesticated alpacas).
He tells us extra about his 2023 calendar’s canine theme, which is a curation of pet photographer Ren Netherland’s hair-raising canine portraits.
Wallpaper*: How on earth did this occur?
Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek: Fortunately issues like this discover me like a magnet. Or it is the spooky social media AI that may learn my thoughts. Ren has been taking pictures at grooming occasions for many years and after I first discovered his pictures, I reached out to him inside a minute. After spending a number of days in his eternal archive I lastly selected the most effective 12 canines to make us comfortable in 2023.
(Picture credit score: Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek)
W*: Which canine do you most see your self in and why?
DG: I believe it is the canine of Might. His motto is ‘Simply do it’ – that is additionally how I love to do it. Overthinking largely destroys my artistic course of, so I must act rapidly.
W*: What canine month are you trying ahead to most?
DG: Possibly November. He’s simply sooo cute and I’d love to offer him an enormous hug anytime I see him.
(Picture credit score: Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek)
W*: What can we be taught from these creatures?
DG: They’d numerous persistence and belief of their house owners when getting their hair performed. I assume it is due to their loyalty and [how they] deal with one another. That is one thing we must also do extra.
W*: What do the canines take into consideration all this?
DG: Ren instructed me about how proud the canines have been and the way caring their house owners are to them. He instructed me they’re residing their finest canine lives ever and get handled like gods.
(Picture credit score: Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek)
W*: Who does their hair? Can they do our hair?
DG: It’s a robust artistic grooming scene that specialises in that. I am certain they will do your hair too!
W*: What’s going to 2023 deliver for you and the canines?
DG: Right here I wish to quote the again cowl of the calendar:
‘While the world is in shambles, now we have nice information for you: optimistic vitality will information you thru 2023. Repeat after me: this new 12 months is a present to myself and my potentialities are limitless.’
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(Picture credit score: Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek)
(Picture credit score: Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek)
(Picture credit score: Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek )
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