Amidst this week’s pictorial, written and audible coverage of Paris Fashion Week, courtesy of our Fashion Director, Alex Fury and model Lily Donaldson, we are pleased to launch, Perroquet, a recent body of work by the Norwegian fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø. Feted for his striking editorial and campaign imagery, here Sundsbø has moved into new territory, inspired by a lifelong fascination with science photography, nature documentaries and copies of The National Geographic. With the parroquet as its central focus, the intriguing study comprises eight film shorts and a selection of photographs, each of which depict the bird mid-flight, in all its glory. Despite the unconventional subject matter, the resultant motion and still images all bear the hallmarks -be it the vivid colour palette or the incorporation of shadow- of a Sølve Sundsbø image.
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