CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/8/2024

Mesmerizing new starling migration photographs from Søren Solkær

Best known for his iconic, cinematic portraits of musicians including Björk, Amy Winehouse, Pharrell Williams and Patti Smith, for the past seven years Danish photographer Søren Solkær has been quietly documenting the mysterious natural aerial phenomenon of the annual starling migration from Ireland through Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy. His first book, Black Sun, collecting 176 hypnotic, almost abstract, color photographs of the starling migration’s patterns and shapes, became an international cult collectible photobook when it released in 2020. His equally mesmerizing follow-up, Starling, is out now from Edition Circle, collecting new photographs made over the last three years. Recent perspectives capture the birds’ murmurations against backgrounds such as Roman urban architecture, while two new series zoom in on feathers photographed through a microscope.