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The Bodega Cat Archive · No. 004

Luna

The Fort Greene tuxedo whose steady place on the register started the looking.

Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Photographs by Gulce Kilkis

Luna the tuxedo bodega cat sitting on the register in Fort Greene
Luna on the register in Fort Greene. Photo: Bodega Cats of New York / Gulce Kilkis

The set

Luna at the store
Luna watching customers from her spot.
Luna at the store
Luna inside the store.
Luna at the store
The original manager.

Field notes

Luna is a tuxedo in Fort Greene. She is the reason this entire project exists.

She was on the register. Not sleeping on it. Sitting on it. Watching the door like she was keeping count.

Luna did not start the project. She started the looking. That is why she belongs in the archive as more than another cat record.

Read Luna's full story

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