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Pierre Obendrauf: ‘And then they kissed’

Photo by Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette

I was walking around downtown looking for pictures between two assignments — Place des Festivals always brings out people. I saw Mikael Gervais and Laurence Crete on the other side of the fountain, enjoying a romantic weekend away from their hometown, Gatineau. I took pictures of them talking, looking at maps, drinking water — and then they kissed.

Photo by Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette

More than 200 dogs were rescued from a dog-meat farm in South Korea. They were going crazy because of all the media present, so to try to get a sense of what they might be feeling in their new environment, I focused on one: Sunny, the Korean jindo, who was being held by Humane Society International’s Chantal Ducharme. I got on my stomach and I could sense he could smell my three cats on my clothes. So then I played with his inquisitiveness and was lucky enough to get it to work.