Photographer Kristin Schnell moved from the bustling city of Berlin to the countryside in northern Germany, where she lives in a remote house with a large garden surrounded by nature. The dramatic extent to which bird populations are declining due to industrial agriculture became a daily reality for Kristin Schnell. She began to engage intensively with the issue and processed her impressions by setting up a photography studio in her aviary and capturing the interplay of colors, forms, sunlight, wind and bird movements in their artificial habitat. The idea for the impressive and profound photo book ‘Of Cages and Feathers’ was born.

Appearing now as a photo book at Kehrer Publishing is the photography project by Kristin Schnell. She photographed birds in captivity as a symbol of the cage that humans tend to put themselves in. Her photos have been widely published and exhibited internationally. Themes explored in ‘Of Cages and Feathers’ include freedom, isolation and the relationship...