About the Book
THE HUMAN ZOO
Lucerne · Switzerland 2025
The familiar seen as if for the first time.
Jung Merlin walks through Lucerne without trying to possess it.
He does not search for spectacle. He looks at a city where people pass, wait, pause, gather, look and are looked at. Tourists, locals, children, groups, strangers, photographers — all move through the same open stage.
The Human Zoo is not a title of cynicism. It is not about the others. It is about all of us.
Lucerne appears as a paradise of visibility: a place where human beings become visible to one another — in light, in water, in reflections, in distance, in the quiet arrangement of bodies, streets and surfaces.
The camera does not intervene. It does not judge. It stays open and trusts what appears.
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, human and full.
The Human Zoo.
The familiar seen as if for the first time.
Lucerne · Switzerland 2025
The familiar seen as if for the first time.
Jung Merlin walks through Lucerne without trying to possess it.
He does not search for spectacle. He looks at a city where people pass, wait, pause, gather, look and are looked at. Tourists, locals, children, groups, strangers, photographers — all move through the same open stage.
The Human Zoo is not a title of cynicism. It is not about the others. It is about all of us.
Lucerne appears as a paradise of visibility: a place where human beings become visible to one another — in light, in water, in reflections, in distance, in the quiet arrangement of bodies, streets and surfaces.
The camera does not intervene. It does not judge. It stays open and trusts what appears.
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, human and full.
The Human Zoo.
The familiar seen as if for the first time.
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
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