How a photographer built a media empire around puppies. Yes, puppies.
When pet photographer Carli Davidson found out that she had successfully sold her first book, a collection of shaking-dog pictures called Shake, she was standing outside a grocery store in Portland, Oregon. With her agent on the line, she started jumping in the air. The path to publication had been a long and difficult journey for Davidson. Just a few years before, she had been shoveling shit—literally—in a zoo.