Since 2010, Gamand has traveled around the U.S. (and abroad) to photograph shelter dogs and at-risk dogs. By telling their stories on her social media, Sophie helps these dogs find homes, and brings support to the nonprofits that care for them. Her best known series are Wet Dog and Pit Bull Flower Power.
In her acclaimed Pit Bull Flower Power series, she has photographed over 450 shelter pit bulls wearing handmade flower crowns. Shared on her popular social media accounts, the portraits often lead to adoptions. Some of her models waited up to 8 years before their portraits connected them with an adopter. Pit Bull Flower Power has become one of the most powerful tools in today’s pit bull advocacy worldwide, changing the public’s perception and renewing the conversation around these misunderstood dogs, while saving countless lives.
Gamand 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. Her work has been published in the press worldwide, online and in print (from National Geographic to Oprah Magazine). Her first book, Wet Dog, came out in October 2015 and her second, Pit Bull Flower Power, in 2018, thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign.
