Martin Zurmühle is known as a photographer for his landscape nudes. As the author of photography textbooks, he developed two new systems for analyzing and evaluating photographs: the four-eyes model as a communication model and the double triangle as a systematic way of assessing and evaluating the quality of photographs as objectively as possible according to chosen criteria.
Martin was born in Lucerne, where he lives and works. After high school, he studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich. During his studies he was fascinated by the functional and straightforward architecture of classical modernism (in the tradition of the Bauhaus) with representatives such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto and Richard Meier. This love of clarity and precision is also evident in his photography. After receiving his diploma, he founded a small architectural office in Lucerne in 1983, which he ran until 2013.
He has been taking photographs with great passion since the age of 16. Until 2002, he pursued photography as an intensive hobby. Together with the change from analog to digital photography, photography also took on an increasingly commercial aspect. He opened a photo studio and a photo school in Ebikon near Lucerne. Since 2013, photography has been his main occupation. In addition to photo assignments, he writes textbooks on various topics of photography and teaches in his own and other photo schools in connection with various photo courses. He holds a federal certificate as an instructor and attaches great importance to a methodically-didactically well thought-out and structured training of his students.
In his own photography, he focuses primarily on nude photography, which he practices in the photo studio, but especially in beautiful rooms and in nature. His images won medals at many international photography competitions and are shown in galleries and exhibitions worldwide. Due to his competition successes, he holds the title of Excellence FIAP (EFIAP/d2) from the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP). From 2016 to 20223 Martin was head of the photography course at the Center for Education – Business School KV Aargau East (Switzerland). Martin presents himself for the committee of PHOTOSUISSE as responsible for the coordination with FIAP.