Mocking Birds is a photo book featuring pigeon dolls hand-sewn by Bird Pit.
Photographer Minkoo Kang placed them across the city of Seoul and photographed them in various locations, capturing scenes that move between reality and imitation, the living and the inanimate.
The pigeon dolls are arranged to resemble real pigeons. They are placed in locations where pigeons are commonly found or posed to mimic their behavior. At first glance, they may appear alive. Yet they remain objects, not so different from the litter scattered across city streets.
The title Mocking Birds refers both to the metaphorical “mockingbird” in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and, more literally, to birds that mimic. It suggests imitation rather than a specific species, and opens the work to multiple readings.
14 x 10 cm
36 pages
2026
