“单身狗”如果按照网络俚语来说就是“特指没有恋爱对象或者没有结婚的人，与“光棍”近义。”不过我们今天推荐的摄影作品仅仅是摄影师捕捉狗狗在汽车里的“绝望等待的眼神”，其实动物的情绪也反映了人类复杂和伤感的情感描述。这组作品由Martin Usborne创作。

The series is inspired by an experience that Usborne had as a child. “I was once left in a car at a young age. I don’t know when or where or for how long, possibly at the age of four, perhaps outside a supermarket, probably for fifteen minutes only,” Usborne explains. “The details don’t matter. The point is that I wondered if anyone would come back. The fear I felt was strong: in a child’s mind it is possible to be alone forever. Around the same age I began to feel a deep affinity with animals—in particular their plight at the hands of humans.”

The Silence of Dogs in Cars toys with fear of abandonment, something we all have felt, using dogs to mirror our own wide range of reactions—fear, resignation, anger, aggression, sadness. “What I didn’t expect,” Usborne admits, “was to see so many subtle reactions by the dogs: some sad, some expectant, some angry, some dejected. It was as if upon opening up a box of gray-colored pencils I was surprised to see so many shades inside.”