City Tours – Street Photographs – The Human Zoo
by Jung Merlin
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About the Book
Jung Merlin reaches those who observe in silence, who read between moments and pause while passing through. His images speak to those who do not try to prove the invisible – but recognize it when it appears. Those who allow questions instead of chasing answers will find no explanations in his work – only reflections.
The book shows people in urban spaces – waiting, walking, still. The camera does not intervene; it trusts what appears when no one is watching. Between shadows and reflections, lines and coincidences, an image of the human emerges – and sometimes, something quietly magical happens.
Jung Merlin calls his collection “The Human Zoo.” Not out of cynicism, but out of deep reverence. He sees the urban space as an enclosure where humans are trapped in routines like animals – but also as a stage on which we improvise, love, fail, and carry on every day. “City Tours” is not a travel guide. It is an intimate record of a city scene – raw, honest, and unvarnished. And those who dare to look will recognize: behind every face lies an entire universe.
The book shows people in urban spaces – waiting, walking, still. The camera does not intervene; it trusts what appears when no one is watching. Between shadows and reflections, lines and coincidences, an image of the human emerges – and sometimes, something quietly magical happens.
Jung Merlin calls his collection “The Human Zoo.” Not out of cynicism, but out of deep reverence. He sees the urban space as an enclosure where humans are trapped in routines like animals – but also as a stage on which we improvise, love, fail, and carry on every day. “City Tours” is not a travel guide. It is an intimate record of a city scene – raw, honest, and unvarnished. And those who dare to look will recognize: behind every face lies an entire universe.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Street Photography
- Additional Categories Switzerland, Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 92 - Publish Date: Jan 20, 2026
- Language English
- Keywords street, Schweiz, Switzerland, Jung Merlin
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About the Creator
Photographer Management
Locarno
Photographer Management is a collective of three photographers: Lower Sugar (Thailand), Jung Merlin (Lucerne) and Fabian Ruchti (Switzerland). No genre label. No staging. No explanation. 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. www.photographer-management.com

