Photographer fights pit bull prejudice with book of portraits
Brooklyn BookBeat
Sophie Gamand’s much-anticipated “Pit Bull Flower Power” book will be published on Oct. 27 to coincide with Adopt a Shelter Dog Month and Pit Bull Awareness Month in October.
Since the 1980s, pit bulls have been demonized by society and portrayed as hellhounds. They’ve become the most feared, hated and abused of all companion animals. Some cities and countries ban them, while the media persist in associating them with viciousness.
This unjust reputation has sealed the fate of millions of dogs who face prejudice around the world and languish in shelters where they are euthanized at a higher rate. In America alone, hundreds of thousands of pit bulls are euthanized every year.