Photo Gallery: Extreme Close-ups of Caged Animals

May 12, 2011

Admittedly, we’ve been a little animal photography-obsessed around here lately; we’ve shown you heartbreaking photos of elderly animals and frightening photos of everyday animals. But now for something completely different — more intimate, if you will: Barcelona photographer Oscar Ciutat’s haunting series Caged, which we discovered on A Cup of Jo. “It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul,” he explains. “I took a series of trips to the local zoo to photograph the eyes of animals held in captivity. I was intrigued by whether the lack of freedom would be apparent in the images.” Click through and let us know in the comments if it changes the way you feel about zoos.