
There are over 500 unique dog breeds
30% are at risk
of extinction
The only way to save them is to
inspire the next
generation of ENTHUSIASTS
Our Goal
The Breed Photography Project is a multi-year international endeavor to meet and photograph every dog breed and celebrate their rich histories through fine art photography.
Our mission is to create a book to serve as a lasting visual record of every dog breed, showcasing their unique beauty, and highlighting the dedication and passion that have shaped these breeds over generations.
Key Focus Areas:
Comprehensive Representation: We strive to capture the full spectrum of each breed, including variations in coat type, color, and working/show lines.
Historical Context: Whenever possible, dogs will be photographed in environments or engaged in activities that reflect their historical significance and purpose.
Artistic Vision: Each photograph will be a work of art, capturing the breed's essence with elegance and respect.

A Photograph is the gateway to learning about a breed
Our Progress
Meet The Breeds we’ve Photographed
Companion
Guardian
Gun Dogs
Herding
Northern
scent hounds
sight hounds
terrier
Current Breed list
Breeds with a check mark no longer qualify for the first of a breed discount which waives the $250 session fee. All well bred purebreds are encouraged to participate.
Does Your Dog Qualify
Is your dog dog a well bred example of their breed?
Are you willing to sign a model release?
If you answered yes to both of these questions then please click the button bellow and join the project.
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AFFENPINSCHER
✓ American Bully
✓ American Eskimo Dog
✓ Bichon Frise
✓ Biewer Terrier
Bohemian Spotted Dog
✓ Bolognese
✓ Boston Terrier
✓ Brussels Griffon
✓ Bulldog
✓ Cavalier King Charles Spanel
✓ Chihuahua
✓ Chinese Crested Dog
Coton De Tulear
✓ Dalmation
Donggyeong
✓ English Toy Spaniel
✓ French Bulldog
✓ Havanese
Indian Spitz
✓ Italian Greyhound
✓ Japanese Chin
Jeju
Kintamani (dog)
Kromfohrlander
✓ Lhasa Apso
✓ Löwchen
Maltese
Mi-Ki
✓ Miniature American Shepherd
✓ Miniature Pinscher
✓ New Guinean singing dogs
Olde English Bulldogge
✓ Papillon
✓ Pekingese
Petit Brabancon
Phalène
✓ Pomeranian
✓ Pug
Pungsan
✓ Russian Toy
✓ Russian Tsvetnaya Bolonka
Sapsal
✓ Shih Tzu
✓ Tibetan Spaniel
✓ Tibetan Terrier
✓ Yorkshire Terrier
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Aidi
Akbash Dog
Aksaray Malaklisi
Alano Español
✓ Alapaha Blue Blood Bulldog
Alentejo Mastiff
American Bulldog
✓ Anatolian Shepherd
✓ Appenzeller Sennenhund
✓ Armenian gampr
Bac Ha dog
Bakharwal
Bankhar
✓ Bernese Mountain Dog
Black Russian Terrier
✓ Boxer
Broholmer
Danish Mastiff
Bucovina Shepherd
Bull Arab
✓ Bullmastiff
Bully Kutta
Ca de Bou
Perro de Presa Mallorquin
Campeiro Bulldog
✓ Cane Corso Italiano
Cäo de Castro Laboreiro
Portuguese Cattle Dog
Cão de Gado Transmontano
✓ Caucasian Ovcharka
✓ Central Asian Shepherd
✓ Chinese Red Dog
Chongqing Dog
Cimarrón Uruguayo
Continental bulldog
Corsican Dog
Croatian Sheepdog
Dikkulak
✓ Dobberman
✓ Dogo Argentino
Dogo Guatemalteco
Dogue Brasileiro
✓ Dogue de Bordeaux
✓ Entlebucher Mountain Dog
Estrela Mountain Dog
✓ Fila Brasileiro
✓ Giant Schnauzer
✓ Great Dane
✓ Great Pyrenees
✓ Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
Greek Shepherd
Gull Dong
✓ H'mong bobbed tailed dog
Himalayan Mastiff
Himalayan Sheepdog
✓ Hovawart
Jonangi
Kangal Shepherd Dog
Karakachan dog
Kars dog
Karst Shepherd Dog
Kombai
Kuchi
Kurdish Mastiff
Landseer European Continental
✓ Leonberger
Majorca Mastiff
✓ Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog
✓ Mastiff
Moscow Watchdog
Mucuchies
Neapolitan Mastiff
✓ Newfoundland
Owczarek Podhalanski
Tatra Shepherd Dog
Polish Tatra Sheepdog
✓ Perro de Presa Canario
Persian Mastiff
Pyrenean Mastiff
Rafeiro do Alentejo
Rize Koyun
Romanian Carpathian Shepherd Dog
Romanian Raven Shepherd Dog
✓ Rottwiler
Saint Miguel Cattle Dog
Šarplaninac
Serrano Bulldog
Slovensky Cuvac
✓ South African Boerboel
South Russian Ovcharka
Spanish Mastiff
✓ St. Bernard
✓ Standard Schnauzer
Tibetan Mastiff
✓ Tornjak
Tosa Inu
Villano de Las Encartaciones
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✓ AMERICAN COCKER SPANIEL
✓ AMERICAN WATER SPANIEL
Ariège Pointer
AUVERGNE POINTER
BARBET
✓ BOHEMIAN WIRE-HAIRED POINTING GRIFFON)
✓ Boykin Spaniel
✓ BRACCO ITALIANO
✓ Braque D'Auvergne
✓ Braque Du Bourbonnais
Braque Francais, de Grande Taille (Gascony type)
✓ Braque Francais Pyrenean (AKC)"
✓ Braque Saint Germain
✓ Brittany
BURGOS POINTING DOG
ca me mallorqui
✓ CHESAPEAKE BAY RETRIEVER
✓ CLUMBER SPANIEL
✓ CURLY COATED RETRIEVER
DEUTSCH LANGHAAR
Deutscher Wachtelhund (German Spaniel)
✓ DRENTSCHE PARTRIDGE DOG)
✓ ENGLISH COCKER SPANIEL
✓ ENGLISH POINTER
✓ ENGLISH SETTER
✓ ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL
Epagneul Bleu de Picardie
epagneul de Pont-audemer
Epagneul Francais (French Spaniel)
✓ Epagneul Picard
✓ FIELD SPANIEL
✓ FLAT COATED RETRIEVER
"Galician Pointer
✓ German drahthaar
German Rough Haired Pointer
"✓ GERMAN SHORT- HAIRED POINTING DOG)
✓ GERMAN WIRE- HAIRED POINTING DOG)
✓ GOLDEN RETRIEVER
✓ GORDON SETTER
HUNGARIAN WIRE-HAIRED POINTER
✓ Hungarian Wire-Haired Vizsla
✓ IRISH RED AND WHITE SETTER
✓ IRISH SETTER
✓ IRISH WATER SPANIEL
✓ KLEINER MÜNSTERLÄNDER
✓ KOOIKERHONDJE
✓ LABRADOR RETRIEVER
✓ LAGOTTO ROMAGNOLO
LARGE MUNSTERLANDER)
Larzac Spaniel
Llewellin Setter
Markiesje
✓ Multi-Colored Standard Poodle
✓ NOVA SCOTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVER
OLD DANISH POINTING DOG)
Pachón navarro
✓ POODLE)
PORTUGUESE POINTING DOG
✓ PORTUGUESE WATER DOG)
✓ PUDELPOINTER
Russian Spaniel
SAINT GERMAIN POINTER)
Saint-Usuge Spaniel
✓ Slovakian Wirehaired Pointer
Spanish pointer
SPANISH WATER DOG)
✓ SPINONE ITALIANO
✓ Stabyhoun
✓ SUSSEX SPANIEL
Turkish Pointer
✓ VIZSLA
✓ WEIMARANER
✓ WELSH SPRINGER SPANIEL
Wesslpointer
WETTERHOUN
✓ WIRE-HAIRED POINTING GRIFFON
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Armant
✓ AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG
✓ AUSTRALIAN KELPIE
✓ AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD
✓ Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog
Barbado da Terceira
✓ BEARDED COLLIE
✓ BEAUCERON
BERGAMASCO SHEPHERD DOG
✓ BERGER DE PICARDIE
✓ Bohemian Shepherd
✓ BORDER COLLIE
✓ BOUVIER DES ARDENNES
✓ BOUVIER DES FLANDRES
✓ BRIARD
Calupoh
Cane Paratore
✓ Catahoula Leopard Dog
CATALAN SHEEPDOG
Ciobanesc romanesc mioritic
✓ COLLIE ROUGH
✓ COLLIE SMOOTH
✓ CZECHOSLOVAKIAN WOLFDOG (Vlcak)
DUTCH SCHAPENDOES
✓ DUTCH SHEPHERD DOG
East European Shepherd
✓ English Shepherd
Faroese Sheepdog
Gaucho sheepdog
✓ GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG
✓ Groenendael
✓ Huntaway
✓ ICELANDIC SHEEPDOG
✓ KOMONDOR
Koolie
✓ KUVASZ
✓ Laekenois
✓ Lancashire heeler
Lapinporokoira (Lapponian Herder)
✓ LONG-HAIRED PYRENEAN SHEEPDOG
Lupo Italiano
MAJORCA SHEPHERD DOG
✓ Malinois
✓ MAREMMA AND THE ABRUZZES SHEEPDOG
✓ McNab dog
✓ MUDI
✓ New Zealand Heading Dog
✓ OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG
OVTCHARKA
Patagonian Sheepdog
POLISH LOWLAND SHEEPDOG
PORTUGUESE SHEEPDOG
✓ PULI
✓ PUMI
✓ PYRENEAN SHEEPDOG - SMOOTH FACED
ROMANIAN CARPATHIAN SHEPHERD DOG
ROMANIAN MIORITIC SHEPHERD DOG
SAARLOOS WOLFHOND
✓ SCHIPPERKE
✓ SHETLAND SHEEPDOG
✓ Shiloh Shepherd Dog
SLOVAKIAN CHUVACH
South Russian Shepherd Dog
✓ SWEDISH VALLHUND
TATRA SHEPHERD DOG
✓ Tervueren
✓ WELSH CORGI (CARDIGAN)
✓ WELSH CORGI (PEMBROKE)
✓ WHITE SWISS SHEPHERD DOG)
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✓ ALASKAN HUSKY
✓ Alaskan Klee Kai
✓ ALASKAN MALAMUTE
✓ AMERICAN AKITA
CANADIAN ESKIMO DOG
✓ Chinook
✓ CHOW CHOW
✓ Czech Mountain Dog
Danish Spitz
EAST SIBERIAN LAIKA
✓ EURASIER
Eurohound
✓ Finnish Lapphund
✓ FINNISH SPITZ
German Spitz
GREENLAND DOG
Hällefors Elkhound
✓ HOKKAIDO
JÄMTHUND (Swedish Elkhound)
✓ Japanese Akita
JAPANESE SPITZ
✓ Jindo
✓ KAI KEN
✓ KARELIAN BEAR DOG
Karelo-Finnish Laika
✓ Keeshond
✓ KISHU Ken
Nenets Herding Laika
✓ Norrbottenspets
✓ NORWEGIAN BUHUND
✓ NORWEGIAN ELKHOUND
✓ Norwegian Lundehund
RUSSIAN-EUROPEAN LAIKA
Ryukyu inu
✓ SAMOYED
✓ SHAR PEI
✓ SHIBA Inu
✓ SHIKOKU Ken
✓ SIBERIAN HUSKY
✓ SWEDISH LAPPHUND
THAI BANGKAEW DOG
Tonya Finosu
Volpino Italiano
✓ WEST SIBERIAN LAIKA
Yakutian Laika
Zerdava
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ALPINE DACHSBRACKE)
✓ American English Coonhound
AMERICAN FOXHOUND
✓ American Leopard Hound
Anglo Francais de Petite Venerie
Ariégeois
Artois Hound
AUSTRIAN BLACK AND TAN HOUND
Basset Bleu de Gascogne
BASSET FAUVE DE BRETAGN
✓ BASSET HOUND
BAVARIAN MOUNTAIN SCENT HOUND
✓ Beagle
BEAGLE HARRIER
Belarusian Gonchak Hound
Bernese Hound
BILLY
✓ BLACK AND TAN COONHOUND
Black Mouth Cur
✓ Bloodhound
BLUE GASCONY BASSET)
BLUE GASCONY GRIFFON)
Blue Lacy
✓ Bluetick Coonhound
BOSNIAN BROKEN-HAIRED HOUND - CALLED BARAK)
BRIQUET GRIFFON VENDEEN
Bruno Jura Hound
Chien Français Blanc et Noir
Chien Français Blanc et Orange
Chien Français Tricolore
COARSE-HAIRED STYRIAN HOUND)
Colombian Fino Hound
Cretan Hound
✓ DACHSHUND
Deutsche bracke German Hound
✓ DREVER
✓ ENGLISH FOXHOUND
Erbi Txakur
ESTONIAN HOUND
FAWN BRITTANY GRIFFON)
FINNISH HOUND)
GASCON SAINTONGEOIS
Gończy Polski
GRAND BASSET GRIFFON VENDEEN
Grand Fauve de Bretagne
Grand Gascon-Saintongeois
GRAND GRIFFON VENDEEN
GREAT ANGLO-FRENCH TRICOLOUR HOUND)
GREAT ANGLO-FRENCH WHITE & ORANGE HOUND)
Great Anglo-French White and Black Hound
GREAT GASCONY BLUE)
Griffon Bleu de Gascogne
Griffon Fauve de Bretagne
GRIFFON NIVERNAIS
HALDEN HOUND
HAMILTONSTÖVARE
HANOVERIAN SCENT HOUND
Haofa Tangkhul Hui
✓ HARRIER
HELLENIC HOUND
"HUNGARIAN HOUND - TRANSYLVANIAN SCENT HOUND)
HYGEN HOUND
ISTRIAN SHORT-HAIRED HOUND)
ISTRIAN WIRE-HAIRED HOUND)
ITALIAN ROUGH-HAIRED SEGUGIO)
ITALIAN SHORT-HAIRED SEGUGIO)
Kerry Beagle
Latvian Hound
Liangshan Dog
Lithuanian Hound
Lucerne Hound
MEDIUM-SIZED ANGLO-FRENCH HOUND)
MONTENEGRIN MOUNTAIN HOUND)
Mountain Cur
NORMAN ARTESIEN BASSET
NORWEGIAN HOUND
✓ OTTERHOUND
Pampas Deerhound
PETIT BASSET GRIFFON VENDEEN
Petit Bleu de Gascogne
Petit Gascon Saintongeois
✓ Plott Hound
POITEVIN
POLISH HOUND
✓ PORCELAINE
Posavac Hound
Rastreador Brasileiro
✓ Redbone Coonhound
SCHILLERSTÖVARE
Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund
Schwyz Hound
✓ Segugio Italiano
SERBIAN HOUND)
SERBIAN TRICOLOUR HOUND)
SLOVAKIAN HOUND)
Slovensky Kopov
SMÅLANDSSTÖVARE
SMALL BLUE GASCONY)
SPANISH HOUND
St. Hubert Jura Hound
Stephens Stock/Cur
Tatranský durič
Treeing Cur
Treeing Feist
Treeing Tennessee Brindle
✓ Treeing Walker Coonhound
TYROLEAN HOUND)
Valdueza
Welsh hound
WESTPHALIAN DACHSBRACKE)
Xiasi Dog
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✓ AFGHAN HOUND
American Staghound
✓ AZAWAKH
✓ BASENJI
✓ BORZOI
CANAAN DOG
CANARIAN WARREN HOUND
✓ Carolina Dog
Chippiparai
Chortai
✓ CIRNECO DELL'ETNA
✓ GREYHOUND
✓ HUNGARIAN GREYHOUND
✓ Ibizian hound
✓ IRISH WOLFHOUND
Kaikadi
Kanni
Levriero Sardo
Mahratta Greyhound
Mudhol Hound
✓ PERUVIAN INCA ORCHID
✓ PHARAOH HOUND
Phu Quoc Dog
✓ Portuguese Podengo
POLISH GREYHOUND
✓ Rajapalayam
Rampur Greyhound
✓ Rhodisian Ridgeback
✓ SALUKI
Sarail hound
Scottish DeerHound✓ Silken Windhound
✓ SLOUGHI
✓ SPANISH GREYHOUND
✓ Taigan
TAIWAN DOG
Tazi
Telomian
✓ THAI RIDGEBACK DOG
Vanjari Hound
Veadeiro Nacional
✓ WHIPPET
Xigou
✓ XOLOITZCUINTLE
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✓ Airedale Terrier
✓ American Hairless Terrier
✓ American Pit Bull Terrier
✓ AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER
✓ AUSTRALIAN TERRIER
AUSTRIAN PINSCHER
✓ BEDLINGTON TERRIER
✓ BORDER TERRIER
BRAZILIAN TERRIER
✓ BULL TERRIER
✓ CAIRN TERRIER
Cesky Terrier
Chilean Terrier
✓ DANDIE DINMONT TERRIER
✓ Danish–Swedish Farmdog
DUTCH SMOUSHOND
ENGLISH TOY TERRIER
✓ FOX TERRIER (SMOOTH)
✓ FOX TERRIER (WIRE)
✓ GERMAN PINSCHER)
Gull Terrier
✓ IRISH GLEN OF IMAAL TERRIER
✓ IRISH SOFT COATED WHEATEN TERRIER
✓ IRISH TERRIER
✓ JACK RUSSELL TERRIER
✓ JAGDTERRIER
✓ JAPANESE TERRIER
✓ KERRY BLUE TERRIER
✓ LAKELAND TERRIER
✓ MANCHESTER TERRIER
✓ MINIATURE BULL TERRIER
✓ Miniature Schnauzer
Mountain Feist
NORFOLK TERRIER
✓ NORWICH TERRIER
✓ PARSON RUSSELL TERRIER
✓ Patterdale terrier
✓ Prague rat
✓ Rat Terrier
Scottish Terrier
SEALYHAM TERRIER
✓ Silky Terrier
✓ SKYE TERRIER
Sporting Lucas Terrier
✓ STAFFORDSHIRE BULL TERRIER
✓ Teddy Roosevelt Terrier
Tenterfield Terrier
✓ Toy Fox Terrier
✓ Toy Manchester Terrier
✓ WELSH TERRIER
✓ WEST HIGHLAND WHITE TERRIER
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It takes approximately $200 in travel expenses to photograph each breed. Help us keep those wheels spinning so we can continue tracking down rare breeds.