Photography
Look closer.
A running collection of photographs that treat the cat as a subject — fur, whiskers, pupils, attention. Every frame is credited to the photographer who made it, and every caption is trying to tell you something you did not know.
The Measuring Instrument
A cat’s whiskers are wired into the nervous system like a set of calipers — each one rooted in a follicle dense with receptors that read air movement, distance and texture.
Photograph — Reinis Brūzītis
What the Eye Holds
Photographed at midday, a pupil contracts to a vertical slit and the world it is looking at appears inside it. Ambush predators that hunt across a wide range of light evolved this shape.
The Slow Blink
A cat narrowing its eyes at you is doing the opposite of staring. In a species where a fixed gaze is a threat, closing the eyes is a statement about safety.
Coat, in Section
Long coats are a single recessive change to the FGF5 gene. The result is a structure that traps air, sheds water, and needs daily work from the animal wearing it.
Green, Gold, Copper
Iris colour is melanin density, nothing more. Kittens are born blue-eyed because the pigment has not yet arrived.
Fence Line
The boundary of a domestic cat’s range is a negotiated thing — patrolled, marked, and revised season by season.
Istanbul, Late Afternoon
Street cats in Istanbul live at the intersection of wild and kept. Nobody owns them; everybody feeds them.
White, Against White
A photographic problem and a genetic one: the dominant white gene that produces this coat also carries an association with congenital deafness.
Attention
Cats do not hold eye contact to be affectionate. They hold it to resolve a question.
Submissions
Shoot cats for a living — or just very well?
We are always looking for close, honest work. Send us a link to your portfolio and tell us what you are trying to show.