Submersion – Fine Art Photography by Menno van der Meulen

Fine art photograph by Menno van der Meulen titled

Submersion (2021, The Netherlands)

“Submersion” places an artificial body within an organic landscape — a plastic form drowning in the stillness of a marsh. The composition plays with absurdity and eeriness: the legs of a mannequin rise from the water as if caught mid-gesture, frozen between beauty and decay. The photograph exposes how human desire and nature mirror each other in strange, distorted ways.

Menno van der Meulen confronts the viewer with an uncanny silence. There is no movement, no struggle — only reflection. The plastic limbs glisten like skin under moonlight, suggesting both presence and absence. “Submersion” becomes a study in contradiction: attraction and repulsion, life and imitation, nature and artifice. It’s a scene that feels both post-human and poetic.