Fotograf Magazine

In his latest works and studies Novogen (2017– 2018), Stadtluft Macht Frei (2018–now), Means of Endeavour (2018),
and Spectrum (2018–now), the photographer Dániel Szalai focuses on different bird species as metaphors. These works fall within the interpretive framework of animal studies, a field in which animals are analyzed in a variety of cross-disciplinary
ways including geography, art history, anthropology, biology, psychology, literary studies, museology, philosophy, history, communication and sociology. Using these angles, Szalai seeks both to learn about human-animal relations and understand animals as beings-in-themselves, separate from our knowledge of them.