Michael Meyersfeld

Biography.
Michael Meyersfeld.

Michael Meyersfeld lives and works in Johannesburg South Africa.

His work is notable for its stark, sometimes sombre, lonely and edgy imagery that has separateness from reality.
His more recent work involves the staging of people in structured scenes portraying mans' emotional and behavioural patterns.

Fascinated with image making from the age of six, he began taking pictures with a baby brownie camera, and spent every available moment making contact prints under the stairwell of his home.

His schooling was at King Edward VII Preparatory and High Schools, and he then went on to do a degree in commerce at the University of the Witwatersrand, after which he joined the family steel business.

The Camera Club of Johannesburg introduced him to the world of art photography and during those years he won many prizes at the numerous International Photo Salons.

Meyersfeld is not comfortable being drawn into giving explanations. His titles are deliberately obtuse nudging the viewer to uncover what memory or emotion that particular image has stirred in them, moving them to reflect, and respond in their own personal world.

His recently completed exhibition "Life Staged" will preview mid 201...

"Michael Meyersfeld - Retrospective" Opening at the ABSA Gallery in Johannesburg on the 9th of May.
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