I am a Toronto-based animal photojournalist. As a child, I had a deep connection with non-human animals. There was never a question, for me, whether or not they are sentient. I do this work because I want others to see what I see when I look into the eyes of an animal. To see that there is someone equal to you and I looking back from behind those loving and joyful, or frightened and pleading eyes. I strive to capture emotion in eyes and in body language to help others to feel what the animals are feeling and to understand that they, like us, are emotional, sentient beings with the same capacity to feel joy, love, and to suffer.