Søren Solkær Starbird is a Danish photographer based between Copenhagen and London. He enjoys travelling and has shot all over the world.

Søren is regularly commissioned for major music campaigns - for artwork and worldwide marketing purposes as well as press campaigns. He has recently shot The Dead Sixties, Mark Ronson, Tiny Dancers and The Good , The Bad and The Queen collaboration, The White Stripes and The Raveonettes for their Record labels.

Søren is commissioned by Q magazine for many of their major artist shoots and covers including their prestigious Awards issue. Other highlights have included photographing Oasis in Argentina, The Killers in Canary Wharf, The Arctic Monkeys on tour, Bjork in London and Michael Stipe with Rufus Wainwright in Dublin for the recent Writers cover as well as The White Stripes at Carters Steam Fair in Victoria Park.

Søren also works regularly for GQ Magazine - recent shoots include an iconic image of The White Stripes in a diner in Nashville and a styled session with Duran Duran as well as Boris Johnson in a helicopter!

Søren's portrait and lifelstyle portfolio continues to develop and he has shot several campaigns for Scandinavian fashion labels including Jack and Jones and Levis in Denmark and is about to embark on a project involving Swedish jeans label Nudie and Amnesty International.

Alongside his commercial successes Soren has continued to concentrate on the artistic side of his photography with solo exhibitions at galleries in Prague, Copenhagen, Chicago, Cologne and New York.

His last major show 'Beat City' was shown in a high profile Copenhagen gallery with a book of the same name published to coincide. As a result Soren has become something of a celebrity in his native land!

Education

B.A. Nordic Literature Aarhus University, Denmark 1993

B.A. Photography FAMU, Photo & Film Academy, Prague, Czech Republic 1995.

Experience

1996 – 2008 Photograph from my studio in Copenhagen. Work for a range

of Danish and international record labels, ad agencies, and

magazines.

Travel extensively worldwide for photographic assignments and artistic projects for exhibitions.

1993-1995 Studied photography at FAMU, the Photo and Film Academy in Prague, Czech Republic.

1992-1993 Travelled in Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Nepal and Tibet.

1990-1992 Studied Nordic Languages and Literature at Aarhus University.

1989-1990 Began to photograph on an 18-month trip to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

Solo Exhibitions

2007 “Souls” Inner Space, Oxford, England

2006 “Beat City” Horsens Kunstmuseum, Denmark

2006 “Beat City” Århus Kunstbygning, Denmark

2005 “Beat City” Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

2005 “Souls”, Reykjavik Town Hall Gallery, Iceland

2004 “Souls”, Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia.

2004 “Souls” , Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004 “Metropol” , Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2003 “Third Eye” , IN CAMERA Gallery, Chelsea, New York

1998 “Photographers Posed”, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, USA

1998 “Photographers Posed”, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark

1997 “Photographers Posed”, Fotokina Cologne, Germany

1996 “Photographers Posed”, Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995 “Photographers Posed”, Galleri Radost FX, Prague, Czech Republic

Collections:

The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark

The National Portrait Collection, Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark

Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

Horsens Kunst Museum