AIRLINES · Bird Tracks in the Air, Iskiographies by Lothar Schiffler: Making-of "AIRLINES XI-1"

Who hasn’t secretly wished they could glide through the air like a bird? Mostly, all we can do though is marvel at the elegance of the eagle’s flight or the daring acrobatics of swifts racing through the skies.

A complex video and photo-technical process involving thousands of single images has now made it possible to portray the beauty of these bird tracks in the air.

In contrast to the word photography which literally means “writing with light”, I would like to call this new process iskiography – “writing with shadow”.

The video visualizes the emergence of the flight trajectories of four buzzards, gliding above vineyards on the slopes of the Black Forest in the south west of Germany. This image was the very first iskiography for Lothar Schifflers project "AIRLINES · Bird Tracks in the Air".

For more information visit:

English: lothar-schiffler.de/iskiography

Deutsch: www.iskiographie.de

Idea and realization: Lothar Schiffler

Technical assistance: Nikolai Klassen