Prepare to see pet fish like you’ve never seen them before… unless you spend hours of meaningful eye contact with your beloved aquarium-bound buddy, that is. Photographer Ernest Goh project The Animal Book explores the relationship between domestic pets and their human masters through formal, emotive, close-up portraiture. “Humans tend to like to anthropomorphize animals and soon after considered their pet to be part of the family and looked upon as a member with a character and soul,” the photographer explains, allegedly capturing the “that human-like character imposed onto them by their owners.” Here’s looking at you, fish.

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh

Photo credit: Ernest Goh
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