Nadège Mériau is a London based French photographer who is currently studying on the MA Photography course at  the RCA . Nadège has exhibited widely throughout Europe. Most notably at the Tom Blau Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and more recently at the Rotterdam City Museum, the Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall and the QUAD in Derby.

She won the 2007 Rencontres d'Arles Photo Folio Review Prize , was nominated for the 2008 Sovereign European Art Prize and was recently selected to take part in the Format International Photography Festival 2009 in Derby.

Nadege's close involvement with new technology at the end of the nineties led to the "Roots" series which consisted in uprooting plants from their soil and scanning them on a flatbed scanner. Her intention was to confront organic matter with digital technology and although these pictures are reminiscent of scientific botanical studies they still retain a magical quality.  They may also be seen as a comment on our relationship ( connected or not ) with the natural world.

 

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                                                                                                               Poppies.