Sage Sohier grew up with four dogs and currently lives with three. Animals have always been important in her life, so when she began photographing people in the late 1970s, she often included their companion animals.
 
 
 
“There is more spontaneity, less self-consciousness and more chaos when humans and other animals coexist. Love is unconditional, grief is uncomplicated, although deeply felt, and life is richer, more vivid and more comic.”