Dogs and their owners

I have decided to focus my assignment on a similar idea as Pieter Hugo's 'men with hyena's' series of photographs. Due to circumstances I have decided to photograph dogs and their owners, trying to show the connection between the two. This is similar to the connection between the men and the hyenas but the photographs that I will take will show the animal as a pet instead of a way of life. 
The reason why i have decided to focus on this part of hugos work is due to the fact that there is nothing that is similar to the circumstances of his work around the area where I live and due to the time scale it would be more worthwhile for me to focus on an are where I will be able to excel. I am also more drawn in and interested by this topic.
Below are a few photographs that I took in response to my new topic. This helped me to progress the idea and I have not chose to use the below photographs due to the fact that they dont have the same look as Pieter Hugos. The photographs are too dark and you can not make out the silhouette of the dogs and the owners.