Xavi Bou’s stunning art encourages us to see birds, and life, from a different perspective. We interview the Barcelona-based photographer who uses the sky as his canvas to reveal the beauty of flight.
Xavi Bou is a bird photographer who doesn’t take pictures of birds. He takes pictures of flight. And in doing so, his stunning artworks ask us to think beyond the pure beauty of birds’ movements. Unlike other forms of motion analysis, which take a purely scientific approach, Ornithographies combines science with art, moving away from early chronophotography techniques used by photographers such as Etienne-Jules Marey or Eadweard Muybridge. Seeking a balance between information and inspiration, Ornithographies is a project of nature discovery and, at the same time, an exercise of visual poetry.
By Mireia Peris
