A photographer who normally reserves her lens for canine launched into a challenge specializing in rescue cats and their tales.
Traer Scott tells PetaPixel that rescue cats are an invisible drawback as 3.2 million of them enter animal shelters every year and virtually half of these find yourself being euthanized.
“There aren’t sufficient properties so spay/neuter training is critically vital,” Scott says. “In contrast to canine, I feel there may be additionally nonetheless a extensively held notion that cats are interchangeable, replaceable, and that has to vary.”
Scott’s challenge, which is now a e book titled Rescue Cats, noticed her observe a collection of rescue cats principally working inside folks’s properties with minimal tools: only a DSLR, a flash, and infrequently a conveyable background.
“Though some cats journey effectively, most don’t and I wished to have the ability to {photograph} them after they had been feeling as relaxed as potential,” Scott explains.
“Canines can usually be received over with meals however cats are a lot harder to persuade. One in every of my three cat gurus accompanied me to each shoot and helped wrangle and cajole the themes. Collectively we decided the place the very best place to shoot was, normally a compromise between the place the cat was most comfy and what appeared most aesthetically viable.”
Scott shot the challenge over the course of eight months round New England. In whole, there are 22 cats featured within the e book, plus a litter of kittens that “the reader will get to see develop up.” She says that she “realized a fantastic deal about all the cats’ histories and plenty of had really heartbreaking tales”.
“The one factor that all of them have in widespread is after all the rescue issue,” Scott says.
“A number of folks cared sufficient to struggle for them, to intervene, to foster, to undertake, and in the end save a life. I don’t know that I might choose only one favourite however a number of the ones that basically caught with me had been Forrest, Juliette, and Linus.”
Rescue Cats is revealed by Chronicle Books and obtainable here. Extra of Scott’s work may be discovered on her website and Instagram.
Picture credit: Pictures by Traer Scott
