Standing as a bold and definitive monument of international conceptual underwater photography, Between the waves (2015) masterfully challenges traditional portraiture by transforming a physical body into a poetic visual essay on weightlessness and liquid introspection. Part of Michaela Haider’s critically acclaimed fine art portfolio, this unique creation utilizes the physics of water to completely strip away mechanical rigidity, isolating a heavily stylized female silhouette in an dreamlike environment. The composition tracks an intimate tactile contrast between the organic curves of the drifting limbs and the crisp, fluid boundaries of a white translucent dress that expands across the misty teal background. This calculated aesthetic friction translates internal states of emotional surrender and mental clarity into an undeniable architectural gravity that interacts beautifully with high-end gallery spaces.
Starting with photographic base elements, such as the figure or the landscape, Haider transforms the scenery into a surreal world through heavy post-production. She uses photographs, that in their essence capture something real, to merge these aspects of reality, slowly creating something unreal and imagined, yet familiar in its story - a dreamscape, drawing from the essence underneath the surface. In her work the unspoken finds itself translated into images.
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Conceptual Underwater Photography - Between the waves, 2015. By Michaela Haider
Between the waves, 2015
Hahnemühle Photo Rag (HPR) 300g
Limited Edition.
Unframed
* Print comes with a 1 in. white border
Originally from Austria, Michaela Haider found her expression in photography at an early age. Drawing inspiration for her early works from the fields and forests, streams and rivers of the region she grew up in. After studying chemistry in Graz, Helsinki and Berlin, the scientific perspective provided even deeper insights into the unifying element of her work — the relationship between the human form and nature, and the materialistic aspect of both.
Her images depict staged worlds that pose and explore the question of this relationship from the human perspective.
Haider's works have been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Spain, and Finland.
