Watch the birdie: Swedish birds pose for the camera - in pictures

British photographer Stephen Gill would often gaze out of a window of his home in Skane, Sweden, to find a vast yet empty sky. A bird enthusiast from a young age - his first teenage photographic project focused on bird tables - he determined to capture Skane's native species and placed a pillar at the end of a field and a camera with a motion sensor opposite. The experiment worked: dozens of birds unwittingly posed for the camera. "Viewing what had taken place often left me stunned," Gill says. Once, "a white-tailed eagle somehow managed to perch on the 6cm diameter stage". His study, now a book called The Pillar (out 20 April, Nobody Books, with words by Karl Ove Knausgard), continued for four years: "I simply could not stop as infinite variations kept presenting." Continue reading...