Starling & Black sun by Søren Solkaer

Starling & Black sun by Soren Solkaer is a combo offer at a special price.

This project has taken me back to the landscape of my childhood and youth in the marshlands of Southern Denmark. A place where as many as one million starlings gather in the spring and fall, prior to onwards migration, and set the stage for one of nature’s most spectacular phenomena. As the countless birds congregate in large murmurations before collectively settling in the reeds at dusk they put on an incredible show of collaboration and performance skills. And now and then, by the added drama of attacking birds of prey, the flock will unfold a breathtaking and veritable ballet of life or death.

Starling is the follow up to Søren Solkær’s international bestselling book Black Sun that explored his return to the landscape of his childhood in Southern Denmark. In this book he continues his photographic investigation into the migration of the starling (Sturnus vulgaris) from Ireland, along the Wadden Sea in Denmark and the Netherlands and to Sardinia and Rome, Italy. In addition to capturing mesmerising starling murmurations, he has also created two new series of photographs of starling feathers photographed through a microscope.

Inspired by calligraphy and Japanese wood cuts, Søren has created a series of graphic images featuring the landscape and great flocks of starlings.