The breathtaking masterwork stands as a definitive milestone showcasing the formal sophistication and raw material syntax of Michaela Haider’s highly acclaimed visual research. Operating as a supreme statement of international surreal landscape photography, this unique creation actively rejects commercial clean-cut staging to establish an authoritative tactile dialogue between the human silhouette and organic earth matter. Through an intricate process of advanced post-production, Haider takes tangible photographic elements of a dense forest floor to map out an unspoken psychological dreamscape. The arrangement thrives on a high-impact color friction, positioning a stylized figure wrapped in a deeply saturated red carmine fabric directly onto a textured matrix of green moss, lichens, and fallen winter branches.
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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Surreal Landscape Photography - Fluid Colour, 2022. By Michaela Haider
Fluid Colour, 2022
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.
