Garrod Kirkwood's best photograph: one man and his whippet in a seaside arcade

'I used to follow Chris and his whippet Edie round Sunderland. I've always had cats but Edie made me want to get a dog' When my friend Chris lost his job a few years back, he became quite depressed and anxious, and so decided to get a pet, a whippet called Edie. Chris looks really cool - tall and confident, with silver hair - and so is Edie. I decided to do a day-in-the-life project with them. He works in a call centre, and I spent two months going to his house every week on his day off. Chris m...