3/13/17: When I first heard about photographer Andrius Burba’s UnderLook project, I just about lost my mind. Unless you’re spending time laying under your coffee table watching your cats walk by (which seems pervy somehow), this is an angle from which we rarely see animals.
Burba set up a photography area at the International Cat Show in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the results are oddly spectacular! And after the success of this first project, he started creeping around under all kinds of animals, including dogs, rabbits, and horses. HORSES. Standing on glass above the photographer. Yikes!
“I knew that all I needed is to get 600 kg horse on a glass, dig 3 meters into the ground, put my camera under a big glass and take a shot. Even though it was the same concept as project “Under-Cats” it took two months to organize it all. I have found horse-friendly environment and even made rubber horse shoes, to save the glass from scratching.”
– Andrius Burba
Amazing. And aren’t you proud of me that I resisted making Catherine the Great jokes?
You can follow Andrius Burba on Instagram, and you can make an appointment for your pet to be part of the UnderLook project on his website.
The making-of Under-Cats video is pretty fun, too!
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March 20, 2021 at 8:18 am
What ever it takes.
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March 20, 2021 at 10:11 am
Yes indeed!
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March 20, 2021 at 10:11 am
This is so cool–and so different than I thought. I figured they were under that pane of glass, snapping away. What do I know…….
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March 20, 2021 at 10:14 am
I think that is what they did. What do you think?
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March 20, 2021 at 10:22 am
On the video, it shows them placing the cats on top of glass (meticulously cleaned!) and the photographer remotely clicks away with the camera mounted under the glass. Pretty ingenious, because can you imagine being under a horse??!!!
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March 21, 2021 at 3:31 pm
Oh I see!
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March 20, 2021 at 3:32 pm
Some of the photos made me laugh, but the horse ones? Mmm…for some reason I just found those creepy.
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March 21, 2021 at 3:33 pm
Perhaps it’s because the underside of horses is less fluffy and therefore less… mysterious?
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March 21, 2021 at 4:28 pm
lol – perhaps. Or perhaps it’s the thought of all that horse falling on my head!
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March 20, 2021 at 10:58 pm
The cats are cute. I have no problems with the horses. Almost all of those were down with the camera under a sheet of glass. Several artists that I know have done this. But this is the only one that goes for super cute and crazy ones. I am running super late so I am off to bed as soon as I post this – Hal
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March 21, 2021 at 3:34 pm
This was the first artist I found who did it. Makes sense there would be others.
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