Women's History Month: Hilda Champion
Bougainville, 2019 © Hilda Champion
For the Women's History Month, Musée is celebrating emerging and established female photographers.
Hilda Champion (b. 1959) is a German-born photographer who found her passion for photography much later in life. She began her career as an agronomist that shaped her organizational and technical skills. Later, as she travelled around the world, Champion got exposed to variety of cultures and traditions, which inspired her to create contemporary photography.
Champion's creativity is drawn from life and nature, which carries a serene and calm presence in her photography. Her prints are created from layering digital photos, resulting in soothing, symmetric abstract pictures. Champion strives for balance and harmony in her photographs, rejecting the idea that her art has to be representational.
“My aspiration in photography is less about showing the world as it is, but rather to release the poetry of the ordinary and help people see the unseen. I try to show an abstraction of what I see, free of distractions.”
You can view more of Champion's work here.
Rock Lines © Hilda Champion
