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Martin Zurmuhle
Switzerland 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Fine Art Amateur "Looking for Shelter" When Martin Zurmuhle photographs buildings or landscapes, the object is there, permanent and immobile. The perfect photograph appears by carefully selecting the best place to set the camera, creating the light or waiting for the light. The process is academic, mechanical. When Zurmuhle shoots nudes, the process is intellectual: each shot shaped like a potter with clay, planned like an architect over his drawing board, and then created with the illusive element of chance. A nude moves, lives and breathes. Each intake of breath, each impromptu flicker of the eyebrows, each subtle change of position will create something unforeseen: the photograph like the figure in the block of marble waiting to be discovered. The nude is life. Everything else is just waiting. Born and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland, he graduated in architecture and began taking photographs with a zeal that has lasted thirty years and taken him into every possible field: nature, landscape, architecture and travel. Zurmuhle is something of a polyglot, dividing his time among various pursuits, as an architect still, an auditor for quality management systems, as a tutor in planning and project management and as a teacher of nude and portrait photography at his digital studio in Ebikon. It would seem that with so many diverse pursuits, he would have no free time, but a busy man always finds more time and Martin devotes his to the role of president of nudeART (www.nudeart.ch), the union of nude photographers in Switzerland. As a professional architect, Zurmuhle appreciates and understands form, proportions, structures and light. For me, photography, architecture and art are related, he says. But in nude photography there is a fantastic play with emotions. Nobody is indifferent to these pictures. Everybody sees something different, depending on their own experience of life. Sometimes the border is narrow, but this makes it all the more interesting. |
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