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Animal
Tim Flach, 7 February - 27 April 2025

Animal: Tim Flach

Past exhibition
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tim Flach, Flamboyance, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tim Flach, Flamboyance, 2021
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Tim Flach British, b. 1958

Flamboyance, 2021
Series: Birds
C-Type print
200 x 165.5 cm
78 3/4 x 65 1/8 in
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
147 x 122 cm
57 7/8 x 48 1/8 in
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
95 x 78.5 cm
37 3/8 x 30 7/8 in
Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Tim Flach, Flamboyance, 2021
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Unlike many other gregarious birds, flamingos, pictured here in a group, or “flamboyance,” are also unusually cooperative breeders: rather than defending just their own newly hatched offspring, the birds gather...
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Unlike many other gregarious birds, flamingos, pictured here in a group, or “flamboyance,” are also unusually cooperative breeders: rather than defending just their own newly hatched offspring, the birds gather their ungainly, flightless young together in a creche, which is then defended by just a few designated guardians. This innovative day-care system frees the rest of the adults to spend their entire day foraging, allowing the birds to gather more food and feed more mouths without increasing the risk of predation.

Excerpt from "Birds" by Tim Flach, texts by Richard O. Prum, Abrams, 2021


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“Flamingos are waders and I decided I wanted to communicate that fact. I thought, let’s see if we can get them reflecting in the water while feeding. They are the only birds that can feed upside down and have specialised beaks that enable them to do so.

“I wanted to go very stylised with this image, to be consistent with the rest of the project. We had already done a shoot with small ducks in the studio, floating in a small tray of water lined with black material, and I quite liked the way it was working. It was displaying the birds as they might display to each other. That gave us confidence to try a similar approach, but on a bigger scale.

“We decided to do the shoot in a barn, near to where the flamingos were being kept. We prepared a pool of water, around 15ftx18ft, which was lined with black plastic. Behind, I had this big sheet of velvet, around 18ft long, which is my general go-to background and sucks out any light.

“When we put the flamingos in the water they settled quickly because they were being kept quite nearby and didn’t have the stress of a journey. They were more concerned with their own pecking order and were happy to stay in the middle of the water.

“I wanted to get some rippling in the water surface, but not so much that it broke up the snake-like reflection which gives that sense of intriguing abstraction. Too much ripple and the reflection breaks up, but too little and it’s not very interesting.

“When lighting the birds, the challenge was to get the lighting coming across them without lighting the black material underneath. I used a couple of banks of light, fitted with honeycombs, that acted texturally as one light source. I also had to be careful that the black beaks didn’t disappear against the black background.”

Tim Flach

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