The familiar seen as if for the first time
Lucerne · Switzerland 2025
by Jung Merlin
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About the Book
Jung Merlin walks through Lucerne without trying to possess it.
He does not search for the exceptional. He waits for the familiar to reveal itself differently — in light, in reflections, in distance, in the quiet arrangement of bodies, streets and surfaces.
People pass, wait and pause. Water holds the city open. Shadows divide and connect. What appears is not constructed. It is found — as if the ordinary, for a brief moment, had begun to glow from within.
This work is not about explanation. It is about presence. About looking again. About staying long enough for the visible world to become strange, clear, and full.
The familiar seen as if for the first time.
He does not search for the exceptional. He waits for the familiar to reveal itself differently — in light, in reflections, in distance, in the quiet arrangement of bodies, streets and surfaces.
People pass, wait and pause. Water holds the city open. Shadows divide and connect. What appears is not constructed. It is found — as if the ordinary, for a brief moment, had begun to glow from within.
This work is not about explanation. It is about presence. About looking again. About staying long enough for the visible world to become strange, clear, and full.
The familiar seen as if for the first time.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
- Additional Categories Fine Art Photography, Switzerland
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 92 - Publish Date: May 01, 2026
- Language English
- Keywords Photography, Schweiz, Jung Merlin
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About the Creator
Photographer Management
Locarno
Photographer Management is a collective of three photographers based in Switzerland and Thailand. No genre label. No staging. No explanation. Three different gazes. One shared attitude: strolling, looking openly, making photographs beyond meaning. Images that seduce rather than inform. Quiet, slow, captivating. Rooted in the thinking of Ponge, Barthes, Byung-Chul Han and the teaching of Norman Raeben: see what is really there, not what someone wants to show. The secret belongs to no one. It circulates. www.photographer-management.com

