PHOTOGRAPHER Philip Clarke
The fulmar has a strong social sense with its own kind, but equally a powerful delight in performance for other species. They delight in giving false trails, and then sweeping over one’s head from behind.
These photographs show how flight depends on the synchronisation of tiny details, and how each movement is sculpted to optimise control.
Philip Clarke is a traditionalist with traditional darkroom skills. “Why exhaust yourself in front of a screen, when you can have the ecstasy of building an individual image from a combination of light and salts. There is really no contest.”