Porte la Souterraine (2020) Photography by Michel Verna

Michel Verna is a professional photographer who has experienced a real artistic parenthesis in his career. After years devoted to institutional and industrial photography, he decided to express his artistic sensibility by regularly exhibiting his work.

Over time, Michel has explored different artistic paths, experimenting with various processes and techniques, ranging from photographic variations to black and white work, including digital techniques. His field of exploration extended from portrait to landscape, seeking to superimpose two visions of our environment: that of the lines that stage our daily life, and that of the hidden face of nature, revealing the invisible.

After putting black and white aside for a while, Michel Verna gave it back a prominent place in his artistic work. For him, black and white fully translates the emotion of men at work, whether in portraits of work or celebration. His fine art prints, in black and white or in sepia, illuminate the invisible sensations in the expression of faces and in the light of eyes. He knew how to develop an authentic photographic approach, without software artifices, to become the painter of the snapshot.

Michel Verna lives and works in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France. Born in 1953, he continues to capture the essence of fleeting moments with his unique gaze and mastery of photographic art. His work is an invitation to contemplate the beauty of the world around us, to feel the emotion frozen in each image.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1953
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists