These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Categories: Animals | Photo project |

Artist from California Brad Wilson creates emotional portraits of wild animals, in which they are just like people.

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Photographer Brad Wilson creates studio portraits of wild animals that look directly into the camera. 

At the very beginning of the project, the photographer realized that it is very difficult to get a direct look into the camera, but it is simply necessary — this is how the picture will be most convincing. 

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Arctic Fox

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Baboon

Usually Wilson uses special verbal commands to shoot animals, but this time the method of working with the animal was completely different - waiting and watching, a kind of meditation in the midst of organized chaos. 

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Capuchin

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Cheetah

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Chimpanzee

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Chimpanzee

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

African Elephant

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

"Golden Tiger— is a tiger with a special coloration caused by a recessive gene

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Mandrill

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Cougar

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Orangutan

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Serval, or bush cat

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Amur Tiger

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

"White Tiger— is a Bengal tiger with a congenital mutation

These portraits are simply fascinating! Eye to eye

Caracal, or steppe lynx

     

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