Visual Exploration: Amorphic Figures

• Prize
• Photographer
  Denis Hagen, United States
• Socials
• Website
  https://artistregistry.org/artist-Profile?TN=20210210101636

My digital photo composites are not planned or staged, but subject matter is found,
captured and multiple whole photos are combined in Photoshop.
My focus is Visual Exploration.
My original intention is to explore colors, shapes and textures.
I find the nebulous figures interesting and mysterious, as there is no sense of who they
are, where they are or what they are doing.
I search for something I haven't seen before.
There is always the surprise of discovery, the search for something unique, and the irony
of making photos that may not eventually resemble photographs.

• Biography
  Retired Chicago advertising agency creative director/art director, working in digital-- creating composites, collages and manipulations. Canon PowerShot G6 camera.
• Awards
  DENIS HAGEN CURRICULUM VITAE Photography Solo Shows: Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, lowa, September 28- December 21, 2019 Waterloo Center For The Arts, Waterloo, Iowa, July 2- September 29, 2024 Pearson Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, lowa, October 24, 2024- February 8, 2025 Photography Jured Group Exhibitions: Juried Show: Tokyo Intemational Foto Awards, Bronze, Fine Art/Collage November 2025 Juried Show: Tokyo Intemational Foto Awards, Two Honorable Mentions, Fine Art/Collage, November 2025 Juried Show: Nebraska Artist Biennial, Gallery 1516, Omaha, Accepted, Photography, October-December 2025 Juried Show: Budapest International Foto Awards, One Silver, One Bronze, Fine Art/Collage, October 2025 Juried Show: European Photography Awards, One Gold, Open Category, August 2025 Juried Show: International Photography Awards, Two Honorable Mentions, Fine Art/Collage, August 2025 Juried Show: CEV Gallery, Phoenix, Online Show, Squares, One Photo Accepted, August 2025 Juried Show: Blanden Art Museum, Small Works, One Photo Accepted, July-August 2025 Juried Show: London Photography Awards, 2 Honorable Mentions, June 2025 Juried Show: Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, One Photo Accepted, Portraits, May-June 2025 Juried Show: A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, One Photo Accepted, Category; Expression, February 2025 Juried Show: New York Photography Awards, Three Honorable Mentions, December 2024 Juried Show: Budapest International Foto Awards, Honorable Mention, Fine Art/Collage, December 2024 Juried Show: A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, One Photo Accepted, Category; Unmoored, September 2024 Juried Show: PX-3 Prix De La Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention, Fine Art Collage, August 2024 Juried Show: European Photography Awards, One Gold, Two Honorable Mentions, Open Category, August 2024 Juried Show: Nebraska Regional Photo Biennial, Gallery 1516, Omaha, Conceptual/Abstract, Oct. 4- Dec. 15, 2024