House pets have a special capacity to pinpoint all your innermost emotions and trash your room when looking for treats.
Robert Bahou, a photographer specializing in dogs and cats, wants to take a closer look at the four-legged critters we think we meet face-to-face every day and hopefully bring out more of those emotions we tie to animals.
Bahou's new coffee book, Animal Soul, uses a stark, black background to enhance the natural luminous quality of each of his subjects. The close and intimate photographs add a bit of humanism to the ordinary features of our furry friends.
"With these photos I hope to show you how incredibly expressive animals can be," Bahou told Mashable. "How a simple photo where the subject is nothing but itself can tell us so much more than we expect. Animal photos are mostly served in bite-size, share-size portions, we look at them, we laugh, we cry, we continue as before."
As of right now, Bahou is pursuing a Kickstarter campaign for Animal Soul's publication; currently the campaign is still 6 days and $8,479 shy of meeting its goal.
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Find more of Robert Bahou's work at his official website.