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"Souvenir d'Intime / Still Life" is a collection of works by Dutch photographer Ruud van Empel (1958–). Empel is known for his digital photomontage technique, which involves meticulously combining photographic materials, and has gained international acclaim as an artist who creates worlds that are complete like paintings, even though they are photographs. His images, composed of layers upon layers of fragments of nature, people, and plants, possess a vivid beauty while simultaneously exuding an artificial stillness, blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination. This book is a collection of works published in conjunction with an exhibition, and mainly features still-life images that the artist himself considers to be particularly close to his personal realm. Fragments of memory and emotion are quietly woven into the meticulously reconstructed images of familiar subjects such as flowers and fruits, reminding us of the constructive and fantastical nature of the photographic medium. This is a book in which the presence of personal memories subtly rises within a finely crafted visual world.