Images & Text By Bruno Mercier

My photographs are my way to show and express some of my feelings and my personal perception of what surrounds me. Photography, for me, is not about reproducing the world. I’m not really interested in making an accurate copy of what I see out there. In fact, I really prefer the power of suggestion over description. What you can see in my photographic work goes through my own filters. OK… all the elements in my photos exist, and everybody could easily see them, but my goal is to offer an artistic interpretation and above all an emotion. I just show the elements I see, like trees and fences, for example, and use those elements as catalysts for my own imagination and hopefully for the viewer’s imagination. I’m generally attracted to places where stories can take place, where imagination can be fired. Furthermore, living in the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy, France) provides me with opportunities to explore wonderful landscapes and seascapes.

My goal in my photographic work isn’t to produce something decorative but just to share a poetic feeling in order to emphasize imagination.

Photographs from series ‘On Met Les Voiles’

All images and text © Bruno Mercier

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Photography & Philosophy

The freezing of a moment is a magical event. Images can make us feel love, rage and every sensation in between.

Photographers, whether partial or impartial to their subject matter, consume a massive amount of insight. Their participation cannot be substituted nor replicated. The moment is gone! The experiences will live in their minds and those encounters are immortalized in their photographs.

Edge of Humanity Magazine’s ‘Photography & Philosophy’ series will bring together the art and the mind of these fantastic creators.

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