A Sensitive Education takes on its name from this slow approach toward others: we need to learn how to get close to animals, educate ourselves on their sensitivity and understand their language codes and how to avoid scaring them.
I’ve been fascinated with this need for slow pace, which is what’s required to establish a relationship with the birds, but also for the time it took me to get immersed in this story and to get a chance to see it. None of the pictures are staged, everything you see in the pictures is the product of what did or did not happen.
What do you mean by “what did not happen”?
There were times where we spent the entire day looking at the sky waiting for Mildred, the stork that lives on the roof of Tristan’s house, to come back. You spend the whole day scanning the horizon and waiting to see a small black dot appear. Right there and then I was going a bit crazy because I thought I would not make it on a project with such extended timelines. Then I decided to set up some deadlines to finish the work and let that issue go; from that moment on my outlook on things changed.
One time I asked Tristan what he learned from animals and he said: “Paying attention to microscopic things, sensitivity”. During the course of the project it became increasingly clear that this would be the subject of the story.
What we view as ferocity, a term we typically associate to animals, is a misconception: animals are much more delicate than we are, they have much more subtle perceptions, they pay attention to elements that we partly forgot over the course of evolution.
Today, for example, we don’t pay much attention to the position of our body or the intensity of our gaze because we can understand one another in other ways, but staring directly at the eyes of a bird is read as a threat, even more so when the staring is coming from the predatory eye of a camera. There are many aspects we should pay attention to, details that reveal your intentions and can be misunderstood. In order to communicate with them you need to retrieve the ability to perceive the smallest changes and the most imperceptible movements, which make up the expressive universe of animals.
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