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The big picture: a pileup of pugs

A sudden flash of inspiration gave portrait photographer Neal Slavin the key to this group shot

Neal Slavin took this picture of pugs and their owners in 2005 for an advertising campaign. The Brooklyn-born Slavin was by then a master of the group portrait. His book When Two Or More Are Gathered Together first came out in 1974 and featured bodybuilders and gravediggers, hotdog vendors and firefighters, a unique collective portrait of Americans (which he followed up with Britons a few years later).

His vocation came to him, he says, when he was looking through some family portraits and came across a picture of a scout troop. “Some were laughing, some clowning, some gazing solemnly into the camera lens, but all exuded an extraordinary humanness, a unique individuality. I wondered about each boy, about what happened after that photo was taken.”

A 50th anniversary expanded edition of When Two Or More Are Gathered Together is published in October by Damiani (£35)

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