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Shark

  • Photographer
    Hagen Michael

Urban structures present themselves as familiar shells of our daily lives?– clear, functional, mesmerizing. Yet they simultaneously harbor a silent threat: in their overpowering scale, their coldness, their anonymity. “Shark” mirrors this ambivalence?– an architectural entity that is at once a fascination and a silent, latent menace. What attracts us can also devour us.

In my work, I explore what I describe as the “Echoes of the Seen”—the emotional and intuitive resonance that visual impressions leave within us. Using simple tools such as a smartphone and accessible editing software, I transform photographs into intuitive visual interpretations of perception, memory, and inner states. Through layering, fragmentation, and manipulation, I investigate both the materiality of the photograph and the subtle shifts of attention it can evoke. A central part of my current practice is translating these visual explorations into tactile artist books.

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