Pro in focus
Kaylee Greer
The award-winning dog photographer is using the power of the medium to help find owners for long-term shelter dogs across the USA. Niall Hampton finds out more
Val out on her Greatest Adventure – a canoe trip down the Colorado River in Moab, Utah.
Kaylee Greer
Before her great adventure: Val
Breed: Cattle Dog Mix Shelter: Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab, Moab, Utah Paw-trait: Three years old, with a fun-loving spirit and gentle nature, Val was a stray on the Navajo Reservation in the Four Corners area of southwestern US. She was pregnant and gave birth to a healthy litter of puppies.
Having got into photography so she could take pictures of shelter dogs, it seems fitting that for her latest project, Kaylee Greer has gone back to where it all began. But this time, she hasn’t stayed local – Greer has taken to the road in an RV, travelling from one side of the US to the other and back again, using the power of photography to help transform the lives of long-forgotten shelter dogs.
Early last year, Greer founded a non-profit organisation called The Dog Breath Foundation and, during the summer of 2024, she and three colleagues took an epic 10,000-mile road trip across the country, called ‘The Greatest Adventure’.
The initiative sees Greer and her team visit a shelter and take the longest-resident dog on a mini-break in the great outdoors, filming and photographing the ensuing fun. Upon returning the dog to the shelter, The Dog Breath Foundation team trains the shelter staff how to take stand-out photos of dogs, which can then be used in social media and marketing campaigns to help find forever homes for the animals.