Projects
Projects
A collection of personnel projects, focused on functionality, development and engineering in landscape, urban spaces and architecture.
Even if mostly absent the human interaction and behaviour represents the main common link between those series.
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Random Places
Random Places is a collection of pictures taken at different places and in different occasions. They are…
The Shack Discoveries
This series reveals the secrets of some isolated retreats. The purpose of such free-standing buildings is…
Preserved Landscapes
A project about preservation and memories. Natural sceneries are conserved in vintage packaging. Similar to…
Off-Season
This is a work about functionalism and non-presence in holiday resorts. It shows traces of human behaviour in…
Displaced
The "Displaced" series, is an approached to the exciting and vast subject of "the impossible possible".…
Memorial
In the East of France you will find impressive landscapes, fertile farmland but also relics of death and…
Odds and Ends
This is about small objects, anonymous things and more, but mainly how objects as well infrastructure can…
Dortmund
Largely destroyed after WW II, this German city, is representative for an unsystematic urban development. The…
Paris Now
Mostly everyone knows Paris, even if it's just from pictures. Like many other cities on the planet there is a…
Projects
A collection of personnel projects, focused on functionality, development and engineering in landscape, urban spaces and architecture. Even if mostly absent, the human interaction and behaviour represents the main common link between those series.
The Shack Discoveries
This series reveals the secrets of some isolated retreats. The purpose of such free-standing…
Preserved Landscapes
A project about preservation and memories. Natural sceneries are conserved in vintage packaging.…
Off-Season
This is a work about functionalism and non-presence in holiday resorts. It shows traces of human…
Displaced
The "Displaced" series, is an approached to the exciting and vast subject of "the impossible…
Memorial
In the East of France you will find impressive landscapes, fertile farmland but also relics of…
Odds and Ends
This is about small objects, anonymous things and more, but mainly how objects as well…
Dortmund
Largely destroyed after WW II, this German city, is representative for an unsystematic urban…
Paris Now
Mostly everyone knows Paris, even if it's just from pictures. Like many other cities on the planet…
Random Places
Random Places is a collection of pictures taken at different places and in different occasions.…
Off-Season
Off-Season
This is a work about functionalism and non-presence in holiday resorts. It shows traces of human behaviour in a highly organized environment.
Due to the absence of any human presence these places change into an bizarre empty stage setting,
and thereby reveals the deployment of infrastructure and facility’s needed to allow life and activities.
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Off-Season
This is a work about functionalism and non-presence in holiday resorts. It shows traces of human behaviour in a highly organized environment.
Due to the absence of any human presence these places change into an bizarre empty stage setting,and thereby reveals the deployment of infrastructure and facility’s needed to allow life and activities.
Preserved Landscapes
Preserved
Silver Award Mifa 2018 & Honorable Mention ND Awards 2021
A project about preservation and memories.
Natural sceneries are conserved in vintage packaging. Similar to outdated boxes, they serve so as reminder on seen and lived situations and their transience.
Placed in a reduced and ordinary ambiance those sceneries induce a reflection about the singularity of nature and it’s vulnerability….
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Preserved
Silver Award Mifa 2018 & Honorable Mention ND Awards 2021
A project about preservation and memories.
Natural sceneries are conserved in vintage packaging. Similar to outdated boxes, they serve so as reminder on seen and lived situations and their transience.
Placed in a reduced and ordinary ambiance those sceneries induce a reflection about
the singularity of nature and it’s vulnerability.
Odds and Ends
Odds & Ends
This is about small objects, anonymous things and more, but mainly how objects as well infrastructure can give you the feeling to be somewhere else; these pictures are an extract taken from a larger series.
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Odds & Ends
This is about small objects, anonymous things and more, but mainly how objects as well infrastructure can give you the feeling to be somewhere else; these pictures are an extract taken from a larger series.
Random Places
Random Places
Random Places is a collection of pictures taken at different places
and in different occasions. They are related through the fact that human
is brought to shape nature for his use in his close surrounding.
Random Places shows the cutting points between vegetation and human needs for engineering and arrangement, the transformation of nature to a functional controlled area. A functional area which produces a distinct graphical style/shape and has to obey simultaneously
to a certain purpose..
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Random Places
Random Places is a collection of pictures taken at different places and in different occasions. They are related through the fact that human is brought to shape nature for his use in his close surrounding.
Random Places shows the cutting points between vegetation and human needs for engineering and arrangement, the transformation of nature to a functional controlled area.
A functional area which produces a distinct graphical style/shape and has to obey simultaneously to a certain purpose..
Memorial
Memorial
In the East of France you will find impressive landscapes, fertile farmland but also relics of death and destruction. Monuments: reminders of loss and suffering, slowly fading into neglect and finally to become an integral and trivial part of the surroundings.
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Memorial
In the East of France you will find impressive landscapes, fertile farmland but also relics of death and destruction. Monuments: reminders of loss and suffering, slowly fading into neglect and finally to become an integral and trivial part of the surroundings.
Displaced
Displaced
The “Displaced” series, is an approached to the exciting and vast subject of “the impossible possible”. Inspiration for this work were press images covering the 2011 tsunami in Japan. The first part of “Displaced” presents here, shows landscapes. Real landscapes, but enriched with objects. These objects are isolated from their original context and embedded in landscapes to serve as actors in a new, possibly real, but probably impossible situation.
Annual Photography Awards 2020
Honorable Mention Winner In Fine Art Category
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Displaced
The “Displaced” series, is an approached to the exciting and vast subject of “the impossible possible”. Inspiration for this work were press images covering the 2011 tsunami in Japan. The first part of “Displaced” presents here, shows landscapes. Real landscapes, but enriched with objects. These objects are isolated from their original context and embedded in landscapes to serve as actors in a new, possibly real, but probably impossible situation.
Paris Now
Paris Now
Mostly everyone knows Paris, even if it’s just from pictures. Like many other cities on the planet there is a visual representation of the city which works as common impression. But besides those iconic pictures there is a city with ordinary people how work and live in this city. Paris Now is about the unspectacular and quotidian of the city of light and love.
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Paris Now
Mostly everyone knows Paris, even if it’s just from pictures. Like many other cities on the planet there is a visual representation of the city which works as common impression. But besides those iconic pictures there is a city with ordinary people how work and live in this city. Paris Now is about the unspectacular and quotidian of the city of light and love.
Dortmund
Dortmund
Largely destroyed after WW II, this German city,
is representative for an unsystematic urban development.
The mix of housing space and industrial real estate leads to a very unique appearance far from historically grown cities.
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
Dortmund
Largely destroyed after WW II, this German city, is representative for an unsystematic urban development.
The mix of housing space and industrial real estate leads to a very unique appearance far from historically grown cities.
The Shack Discoveries
The Shack Discoveries
This series reveals the secrets of some isolated retreats. The purpose of such free-standing buildings is often obscure. Associating, the pictures of the shags with the pictures of the (imaginary) on-site findings unveil a possible use or event. Depending on your sensitivity and imagination, these photos will lead to very different interpretations.
Olivier Mériel Photography
Contact: hello@oliviermeriel.com
The Shack Discoveries
