Perroquet: Photography, Science, Slow-Motion Beauty

How three worlds of fascination collide through negative space and positive brilliance.

The most talented of artists are, without a doubt, tremendously curious by nature, which results in an incredibly eclectic and diverse pool of inspiration. Fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø fully embodies this notion — his latest experimental project, Perroquet, is infused with Sundsbø’s lifelong fascination with science photography and nature documentaries, blended through the lavish and colorful aesthetic sensibility of fashion imagery.

Fascinated by the movement of a bird in flight, Sundsbø set out to stitch together a series of “frozen moments” from the flight of a perroquet, a small, slender, long-tailed parrot. Shot with high-speed cameras in a controlled studio environment, the slow-motion shorts capture the graceful silhouette of the bird mid-flight in a series of abstract images, brimming with cropped viewpoints and a wonderful play on negative space.

The resulting series of 8 short films is absolutely stunning, a beautiful convergence of aesthetic design, science, and motion graphics.

via BoingBoing

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