Tokyo Parrots | Yoshinori Mizutani | Amana 2014 Chris Killip I was sweeping grass in

I was sweeping grass in the cowshed when a colleague beckoned to me from a distance

The setting is Spain under a dictatorship 30 years after the fierce civil war

that's when I go out and shoot photographs"

I discovered that the biggest nest was in a ginkgo tree on the Tokyo institute of Technology campus in Ookayama

and then eventually board a plane or ship to cross the Pacific

Tokyo Parrots | Yoshinori Mizutani | Amana 2014 Chris Killip I was sweeping grass in"When I saw hundreds of parakeets swarming the sky, I was struck by fear. I felt as if Id walked into the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds. Every morning, flocks of several parakeets each would fly to the elm tree near my home in Tokyos Setagaya ward. I watched these flocks arrive daily. Eventually, more and more flocks showed until finally, this strange scene of hundreds of parakeets appeared. The parakeets had overly bright, lime green wings. These