It was on the shore of Olafsfjördur, Iceland beach where I found those birds. Their presence is ephemeral. Nobody knows for sure why they are so many. Some locals would think they've died of starvation. Nobody knows how long they have been lying there between rocks, on ice or mixed with sand.
I took the opportunity to transform these grotesque creatures into what I consider to be the ultimate repetition of uniqueness.
I took the opportunity to transform these grotesque creatures into what I consider to be the ultimate repetition of uniqueness.
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I went to Iceland for the month of March to do a Residency program. I knew the winter would still be going hard, I didn't know what to expect.
Of course the outstanding whiteness of the landscape rocked my heart but still after two weeks I hadn't had an interesting photographic idea. It was then on the third week when the snow started to melt that I finally found what I had been looking for. During a walk at the beach I saw what appeared to be the remains of a bird. I had never seen a dead animal on that state. It didn't look like it was decomposing. It seemed in shambles. As if another animal had had it on its mouth, had shaken it for a while and then thrown it away.
I made a photograph of it and continued walking. I found one more. Then one more.
When I decided to go home I had photograph more than 10 dead animals.
After coming back to the beach 4 days in a row I finalized my project with 73 photographs of different birds.
Here it's shown 13.
