Karl Ove Knausgaard on Stephen Gill’s Bird Images in “The Pillar” | The New Yorker

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To Be a Bird: Stephen Gill’s “The Pillar”

The first time I looked at Stephen Gill’s photographs, I was shaken. I’d never seen birds in this way before, as if on their own terms, as independent creatures with independent lives.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/karl-ove-knausgaard-on-stephen-gills-bird-images-in-the-pillar

The photographs in Stephen Gill’s “The Pillar” encounter birds on their own terms.