Operating as a supreme statement of contemporary fine art portrait photography, this unique creation deliberately rejects commercial clean-cut staging to establish an authoritative tactile dialogue between the human silhouette and organic matter. The composition features a stylized female figure against a deeply saturated emerald green backdrop, her bare shoulders and collarbones frosted in fine sand and dark soil. With her eyes covered by a dense, textured organic blindfold, the narrative tension aggregates over the lower torso, where her hands merge with a decaying lattice of dried leaves and wild foliage that seem to sprout from the skin itself. This calculated visual rhythm successfully distills an elemental tone of human existence.
Series 'Farbtöne' - hues of colour, tones of life.Each artwork of the series shows a story, a tone, an element of existence in this world. There are countless shades to it. The images are just a selection of some. An idea being conveyed.
What we're made of: A question continuously asked in this mad pursuit of art, meaning and knowledge about the human being. What are we made of? How far can we stretch ourselves away from our substance? What happens if we do? And what happens if we align ourselves with it?
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Fine Art Portrait Photography - What we're made of, 2023. By Michaela Haider
What we’re made of, 2023
From Farbtöne Series
Hahnemühle Photo Rag (HPR) 300g
Limited Edition.
Unframed
edition 2/5 printed, signed and numbered in front.
* Print comes with a 0.7 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.
