About Miriam Engelhardt

Raised by classical musicians, I developed at an early age a special relationship with music and sensitivity to the ambiance and mood inspired by musical compositions. After years of research and teaching I began my journey into the world of photography with special focus on creating montages from photographic images through digital manipulation.

My passion for reassembling photographic bits into imaginary scenes stems from my drive to weave stories about places and objects in my surrounding world, bringing them to life on my own terms. As disparate photographic fragments meld and blend with each other, the narrative emerges, molding my experiences, sentiments, impressions, and ideas into a visual form, with textures and colors setting the mood of my stories. While diving into the realm of fantasy, the use of my own photographs becomes an anchor to reality, and in the lengthy process of fusion, the borrowed frames of the tangible world allow me to bend reality to my imagination.