Sometimes, a person and an animal can look so alike, you might just think they’ve got the same soul. Professional animal photographer Gerrard Gethings’ latest project involves pairing people up with their cat lookalikes. The resemblance is uncanny and the portraits are magical.
The hair, the looks, the colors—they’re all chosen to mimic the same energy. And Gethings has done it perfectly. Scroll on down, upvote your fave photos, and let us know in the comments which cat-human pair you loved the most and why, dear Pandas. While it would be wonderful if the people in the portraits were the felines’ owners, this isn’t the case. They’re actually models who were selected to match the photographed cats. It was a long casting process, but the results were definitely worth the effort! The photos have even been turned into a memory card game, ‘Do You Look Like Your Cat?’
“I had previously made a series of work based on people who look like dogs. It was received really well and I needed another project that I thought would be equally, if not even more engaging. Cats seemed the most accessible choice, but they are infinitely more difficult to photograph than dogs,” Gethings told Bored Panda in an interview. Read on to learn more about the photographer’s project, as well as the unique challenges that photographing cats (who seem to have an “evil sense of humor”) presented.
More info: Instagram (Gethings) | Twitter | GerrardGethings.com | Instagram (Laurence King Publishing)
#1 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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#2 Gunther And Albert (Exotic Longhair)
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#3 Marielle And Jacques (Silver Maine Coon)
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#4 Nancy And Buttons (Scottish Fold)
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#5 Matthew And Hubert (Abyssinian)
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#6 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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#7 Dominic And Merlin (Blue Tabby Maine Coon)
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#8 Tobias And Hero (Moggy)
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#9 Arlo And Buttercup (Cream Persian)
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#10 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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#11 Elisabeth, And Angelique (Khao Manee)
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#12 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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#13 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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#14 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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#15 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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#16 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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#17 Do You Look Like Your Cat
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