Fede Merino (1943) Carlos Merino (1970). Father and son. Photographers.


We have joined our knowledge and our strength since we first met, occasionally working together since 1986 and continuously since 1987.


We use chemical and digital back up for image creation and edition. We choose in most situations to use black and white because we consider it the most fitting to show the Secret Essence of Things.


We carefully positivize our originals because we understand that the photographer must be his own work's player, knowing that in the negative, like a music score, everything is written but the fundamental.

In the technical area, we get to the Reality with respect and quietness, trying to surprise her in her whole truth and greatness. We declare ourselves lovers of natural light, which shows Existence blooming and impenitent users of Nikon, TRI X, Rodinal, Ilford…


We have specialized in the following fields:

Industrial:

Graphic following of the construction of Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, 1995-97;
…of Euskalduna Palace, 1997-98
Steelworks in Blast Furnaces of Vizcaya, 1986-87…

Documentary:

"Arrantzale" (Fisherman), 1973-76; edited in 1993. Foreword by D. Julio Caro Baroja.
"Euskal Jokoak" (Basque Games), 1988-89, entrusted by Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
"Bilbao Beti" (Always Bilbao), in cooperation with the Bilbao Town Hall, 2000-2001…

Creative and Advertising:

Making of the Graphic Archive of the Arriaga Theatre since 1987;
Of the Juan de Anchieta's Centre of Studies Archive of Activities, 1997; Making of portfolios for Ainhoa Arteta, 1994-2003;
Carles Cugat, 1989-2001; Tricicle, 2001;
National Dance Company, 2000; Lander Iglesias, 1976-2001…

Aesthetic Research:

"La búsqueda de la Esencia" (Search for Essence), Chillida 1991-98
Monographic of Oteiza, 1984-86
Barterrechea,1987. Mendiburu, 1989. Ibarrola, 1988, Larrea, 1994
"De la Densidad y el Límite" (About Density and Limit), 1995-99.
"Chillida inguruan" (Around Chillida), Project of Aesthetic Pedagogy, 1992-2001