Honorable Mention TIFA 2025 Fine Art / Collage

Go - Open

  • Photographer
    Michael Hagen

Go Open - a quiet Impulse

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.