A portrait of his late cat, put up on a wall in his house by his wife, started to intrigue American artist Elliot Ross. The cat seemed to stare right at him. Ross wondered if the cat had consciously looked into the camera when the photo was taken. What the cat was thinking at that time. In what way the consciousness of an animal differentiated from that of a human being. In a quest to try and find the answers, Ross turned his thoughts and wonderings into a project: Animal . Around the world he portrayed animals and discarded the surroundings afterwards to make the portraits more isolated and powerful. ..

Other Animals is the sequel to American artist Elliot Ross' critically acclaimed book of photographic animal portraits titled Animal (Schilt Publishing 2010). Approaching more closely subjects of many species, he has continued examining his thoughts and feelings about being an animal in a world with other animals: the wonder and beauty, as well as the unease. In this book he studies other species' similarities and differences, their textures, physiques, and apparent physiognomies while using free-hand drawing techniques he has developed within digital imaging. The result is a group of strikingly sculptural black-and-white portraits that are at once photographs a ..