‘It reminds me of the love I felt for my faithful companion’: Tony Hertz’s best phone picture

Shadows glimpsed on a wall at sunset inspired this evocative portrait of the photographer and his dog, Lolly Lolly – a chow-chow-cocker spaniel mix – was Tony Hertz’s dog for 15 years. “She had long black hair with a little white on her mouth, ears, eyebrows and feet, and a partially marbled tongue. She was quite cute,” Hertz says. Hertz and Lolly were living in Pismo Beach, California, when he took this shot. At the time he was working on a photography series and book based around shadows, a...

By Grace Holliday