Black Sun: Søren Solkær’s startling starling murmurations

“You wait for a week, or two weeks, and nothing happens… but then, within a few seconds, everything changes, and suddenly the sky explodes. It’s one of the most exciting things I’ve ever experienced in my life.”

These are the words of Danish photographer Søren Solkær, who photographs the amazing shapes made by starling murmurations – the airborne swarm created by huge groups of starlings, which twist, turn, swoop and swirl across the sky in beautiful shape-shifting clouds.

While Solkær is best known for his portraiture of musicians – for example, Björk and U2 – since 2017, he has been photographing the avian phenomenon that occurs twice a year as starlings migrate.

His work ‘Black Sun’ documents these natural aerobatics, and is the fruit of his travels across Europe – from Denmark to Germany to Spain and Italy – to capture these awe-inspiring feathered feats.

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