Son and Father

A father and son appear to face each other like mirrored reflections, recognising the likeness. The birds become our stand-ins. Like us, they face isolation, control, adaptation, and the longing for freedom in constructed worlds, echoing the physical and emotional cages we often build around us. I explore the tension between freedom and captivity through photographs of birds in my sanctuary for mistreated birds. After European colonists captured them in Australia, the species has lived for generations in artificial environments.

Kristin Schnell is a German photographer and visual artist based near the Baltic Sea coast in Germany. Her staged photographic works explore themes of freedom, vulnerability, control, and the complex relationships between humans and animals. In 2024, her first monograph, Of Cages and Feathers, was published by Kehrer Verlag. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and she was selected for the Top 50 of Photolucida’s Critical Mass Award 2024/2025. In 2024, ARTE also released a documentary on her artistic practice.

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper

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