Operating as a supreme statement of contemporary fine art portrait photography, this unique creation actively rejects commercial clean-cut staging to establish an authoritative tactile dialogue inside a frozen, hostil winter environment. Through an intricate process of raw outdoor documentation and precise spatial composition, Haider maps out an unspoken psychological dreamscape, positioning her own bare-backed silhouette curled in a protective fetal position directly onto the solid, blue-toned ice layer of a secluded river. Enveloped by a heavy, structural matrix of fallen trees, decaying branches, and rich white snow blankets, the figure's raw physical exposure successfully visualizes the elemental tones of existential vulnerability, internal shelter, and absolute isolation.
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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Fine Art Portrait Photography - The fragility of all, 2015. By Michaela Haider
The fragility of all, 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.
