Melissa Mercier: Perfectly Private – 14

July 30, 2012 by  
Filed under Experience

How to get a lover back Summer time is here and there's no better way to fully enjoy it then by adding fabulous flowers to your wardrobe. For the next few weeks, I will be taking images featuring different ways to include summer blossoms into your style. This week's theme is fuchsia. Enjoy your summer [...]

Melissa Mercier: Perfectly Private – 2

May 2, 2012 by  
Filed under Experience

I was reading a very interesting article analysing the ‘Instagram obsession’ and the nostalgia that comes with it. Some people are dubbing the application “the Auto-Tune of photography”. Others say that it is tapping into the sense “that a photograph is itself a precious object”. I find this statement quite intriguing as artist like myself [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #19: Scolionophobia; The fear of school.

July 28, 2011 by  
Filed under Experience

Remember your first day of school? That day is filled with excitement, fear, change, bravery and the crossing of a threshold. I am a bilingual Canadian, but I grew up speaking only french in the province of Quebec. This self portrait reminds me of the courage that it took to leave my small home town [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #18:Looking into a mirror

July 19, 2011 by  
Filed under Experience

Looking into a mirror is like peering into the eyes of God. There are no lies, no places to hide from the truth that comes from within. I imagine the fear of looking into a mirror is really the fear of facing one’s self. I played with these ideas in this self portrait, keeping the [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #15 –Clinophobia

June 27, 2011 by  
Filed under Experience

One of those hot summer nights; too sweaty to sleep under the sheets, yet the silky cotton is too soft to resist. This image explores Clinophobia, the fear of going to bed incorporating the feeling of spying or being spied upon depending on the viewer’s perspective. For this image, I used: Hasselblad body Phase One [...]