Your Creative Push

Sophie Gamand is a French award-winning photographer and animal advocate living and working in New York.  Since 2010, she has been focusing on dogs and our relationship with them. Sophie travels around the U.S. photographing shelter dogs for free, to help bring awareness to their fate, and help them get adopted. Her most known series are Wet Dog and Flower Power, Pit Bulls of the Revolution.  She has won several prestigious photography awards for her work (including a Sony World Photography Award in 2014), as well as advocacy awards for her dedication to animal rescue and adoption. Sophie's work has been published in the press worldwide, online and in print (Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Oprah Magazine, ....).  Her first book, Wet Dog, came out in October 2015. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/sophiegamand In this episode, Sophie discusses: -How her overly critical father killed a lot of her creative drives. -Her time spent in Art Law, opera singing, and creating a photography magazine. -Moving to Ne