Relying on a complex multi-layered digital post-production methodology to merge real-world photographic baselines into a surreal landscape the unique studio composition frames an emotional narrative that reads like a dreamscape. The composition anchors a central female form clad in flowing deep crimson textiles partially obscured as she seamlessly morphs into the split cavity of a weathered ancient tree trunk. This highly tactile organic wood texture balances with a sweeping high-contrast background that blurs the boundaries of reality.
Continuously seeking the unknown and unnamed. The search seems to not be fruitful on the outside. Unstilled in our thirst we turn inwards to seek that, which no words ever truly encompass.
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 Self-portrait Photography - The Seeker, 2024. By Michaela Haider
The Seeker, 2024
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.
