Spot, We Hardly Knew Ye

Giacomo Brunelli’s "The Animals" is a series of pictures that are meant to make us question the human-animal relationship:

In her introduction to his book, which is published by Dewi Lewis, the curator Alison Nordstr refers to critic John Berger’s observation that animals are the quintessential Other and that we look at them to define and discover ourselves.

What emerges from Brunelli’s collection is just that: creatures we think we know, ones that we routinely pet, tame, even house, reveal themselves to be unfamilar, utterly unknowable beings.

More images here.