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.
My name is Michael Hagen. I began practicing photographic art in early 2025 after a serious illness forced me to leave my previous profession. During this time, art became a way to process inner experiences and reflect on change and human existence. In my work I explore what I call the “echoes of the seen” — the emotional resonance that visual impressions leave within us, transforming photographic material into intuitive fine art images about perception, memory and inner states.