Søren Solkær Starbird (Born 1969)

Education: B.A. Nordic Literature Aar­hus University Denmark 1993. B.A. Photography FAMU, Photo & Film Academy Prague, Czech Re­pub­lic 1995.

Ex­per­i­ence: 1996 Present Photo­graph from my stu­dio in Copen­ha­gen and my second base in Lon­don. Work for a range of Dan­ish and in­ter­na­tion­al re­cord la­bels, ad agen­cies, and magazines. Travel ex­tens­ively for pho­to­graph­ic as­sign­ments and artist­ic projects for ex­hib­i­tions.

1993-1995 Studied photography at FAMU, the Photo and Film Academy in Prague, Czech Republic.

1992-1993 Travelled in Taiwan, Phil­ip­pines, Thailand, Nepal and Tibet.

Website: www.starbird.dk

This is the man who, over the past decade, has taken

amazing photographs of many of the world’s leading musicians. Closer is a collection of the works of Soren Solkaer Starbird, a Danish photographer who has risen to astronomical heights in the world of international photography. His portraits, ranging from deep and intimate studies to large format cinematic scenes shot in mind-blowing locations, have been published on the covers of the world’s leading magazines: Q, GQ, Arena, Rolling Stone and Wallpaper.

Artists featured in this, his second volume of work, include young, upcoming artists such as Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, The White Stripes and The Killers, together with established music icons such as U2, Oasis, Robert Plant, Metallica, Damon Albarn, Patti Smith, and Paul McCartney.

An exhibition of the works featured in Closer opened in Copenhagen, Den­mark, this year and will travel internationally to prestigious desti­nations such as London and Beijing.