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Michael Merne
Switzerland
Nominee
"Fear Of A Spider, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain"
The art of the titanium Guggenheim, the art of the bronze spider and the art of the photographer to seize an imaginary scary moment for a mother and child. The bronze spider by Louise Bourgeois is coincidentally named ‘Mamam’ the French word for mother.
Biography: MICHAEL MERNE PHOTOGRAPHY
Born in Ireland and living in Geneva, Switzerland since 1993.
My photographs represent those fleeting, special moments that I have been lucky enough to see. These are the moments that will provoke your thoughts – it is the simple beauty of things – we just have to stop and take a look at them.
I suppose I got this passion through looking at the works of photographers such as Irving Penn, W.Eugene Smith, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Sebastião Salgado.
I have collaborated with Eureka Slide, a Brussels-based international photo library, since 1991, and...
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