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Honorable Mention BIFA 2026 Book / Fine Art

Tempus Fugit (Part I of the Pentalogy)

  • Photographer
    Hagen Michael
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Book / Fine Art

Tempus Fugit Part I of the Pentalogy Tempus Fugit Poiesis: Lights Being Realized The Pentalogy operates as a visual inquiry unfolding through five cosmological steps. Part I: TEMPUS FUGIT The inherited structure: an unconscious resistance to a rigid and antagonistic experience of time, characterized by repetition and fragmentation. The following titles represent the subsequent parts of the Pentalogy, also submitted to the Book (Fine Art) category of the BIFA Awards 2026: Part II: POÍESIS Part III: LIGHTS Part IV: BEING Part V: REALIZE

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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