Exodus, Barcelona, 2022

I took this photo in a square in Barcelona that had the most pigeons I've ever seen in my life. This girl was enthralled by them, skipping around on the periphery and blindly swinging her inflated sword at them as she couldn't contain her excitement. She finally built up her courage to charge towards them with her balloon weapon, and the hundreds of pigeons responded with a mass exodus of feathers, movement, and bird shit. I captured this shot in the frenzy of the moment, as the girl crouched to avoid the pigeon tornado. Seconds after this photography was taken I was shit on by a passing pigeon.