Multiple-exposure study of starling murmurations
Stranger Things
Thousands of birds move as one, turning a fleeting natural event into line, volume and gesture.
Enter the series
The project
From encounter
to visual language.
Stranger Things is a photographic exploration of starling murmurations, created through in-camera multiple exposures. By layering successive moments, the flock is no longer frozen in time. Its collective movement becomes visible as a single graphic form.
The series moves between realism and abstraction. Trees, houses, a windmill and a streetlight hold the landscape still while the birds flow around them like ink or charcoal. Order and chaos remain present at the same time.
Each image asks where the individual ends and the collective begins. What first appears strange gradually reveals an underlying harmony: a living system drawing itself across the sky.
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- Subject
- European starlings
- Method
- In-camera multiple exposure
- Locations
- The Netherlands
- Works
- 14 photographs
Selected works
A considered edit from the complete Stranger Things series.
Exhibition archive
From movement to presence.
In this earlier gallery presentation, the accumulated movements became quiet, physical objects. Presented together, the photographs shifted in scale from intimate marks to panoramic currents, allowing the rhythm of the flock to continue across the wall.
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