Max Pinckers She Will Use the Birds. From the series The Fourth Wall, 2012
“‘She Will Use the Birds’ is a visual interpretation of a passage from Suketu Mehta’s book Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, a non
(...) -fiction account of Bombay’s Bollywood underworld. The passage describes an encounter between a dancing girl and her client, who go on their first date outside of the bar where she works. The dancer invites her man into a taxi, buys a flock of songbirds from a nearby street vendor and lets them flutter around in the car. She then asks her man to play a game with her: catch the birds. This quickly turns into a flirtatious exercise of touching, gasps, laughter and giggles.
When reading stories like this one, it is in the instant imagination of a visual narrative that I find my satisfaction, in which my subjects also play out their own fantasies. When this materializes into a photograph, it is then up to the viewer to form their own interpretation of the scene.”
– Max Pinckers © Max Pinckers | Magnum Photos
