“Broken Hearts | Broken Souls” Dog Photography by Maria Camila Morales

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Curated by Adriana Caicedo

ARTIST STATEMENT

Living on the streets makes people invisible. The streets destroy both their physical and mental health. The daily struggle is simply to survive. Stray dogs have a similar journey. Left behind, abandoned, scared and looking for a way to avoid death every day. But sometimes homeless people facing financial, political, or addiction situations find in stray dogs their salvation. And it works both ways as New Yorker Paul Auster so brilliantly recounted in his masterpiece “Timbuktu”. Who saves who when their lives intersect? United in pain, in oblivion and counting only on each other to make it through each day. Such love, connection, and trust cannot be expressed in words.

“Broken Hearts | Broken Souls” is a tribute to all those people who, in their immense pain and struggle, have bonded with a stray dog to ensure mutual survival and love, living and working on the streets of Bogotá, London, Paris, and New York. These images seek to convey that special bond. It is also a way to thank Americans for their solidarity with the campaign in favor of adopting strays and unwanted dogs – Adopt Don’t Shop. The US continues to be one of the countries with the most “international” stray dog adoptions and New York City leads the way.