Natasha Caruana Explained

Natasha Caruana (born 1983) is a photographic artist[1] who works with still photography, moving image and installation. She is based in London and is a Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK.

Caruana's work is based around themes of love, betrayal and fantasy.[2] Her books include ONO (2012)[3] [4] and Married Man (2015).

In 2014 she won the BMW Young Photographer-in-Residency at Nicéphore Niépce Museum, France. Her work is held by the British Library in London.

Life and work

Caruana gained an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London in 2008.[5] [6]

She is a Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK.[7]

Caruana's The Other Woman series, made in 2005, uses portraits she made of mistresses — women who have had affairs with married men.[8]

Her Fairytale for Sale series (and the book ONO) is about women who sell their wedding dresses online. Using email, Caruana posed as a potential buyer and the women sent her photographs of them wearing their dress, in which they obscured their and their partner's face. They also provided a description of why they were selling the dress, which partially describes why they obscured the faces. Caruana used both the photographs and text in her work.

Her Married Man series is about infidelity. Caruana posed on dating websites aimed at men seeking affairs. She went on 80 dates with 54 men in 2008 and 2009, deceptively making snapshot photographs and secretly recording audio.[9] [10]

Publications

Publications by Caruana

Publication paired with another

Publication with contribution by Caruana

Award

Collections

Caruana's work is held in the following public collections:

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Portrait of an adulterer: secret shots of 50 married men I met on dating websites. 25 August 2015 . 25 January 2018 . Emine . Saner . . London .
  2. "Natasha Caruana in conversation with Celia Davies", Photoworks, 12 September 2017. Accessed 28 January 2018.
  3. News: Natasha Caruana's secret subjects. 3 February 2012 . 26 January 2018 . Phil . Coomes . .
  4. News: Photography: ONO, By Natasha Caruana. 19 February 2012 . 25 January 2018 . . London .
  5. "Natasha Caruana", Bloomsbury Publishing. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  6. News: Frieze 2012 and the contemporary art fair: a good or bad thing for artists?. 15 October 2012 . 25 January 2018 . Afshin . Dehkordi . . London .
  7. "Natasha Caruana", University for the Creative Arts. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  8. News: Natasha Caruana's 'The Married Man': Artist Secretly Documents 80 Dates With Cheating Husbands (PHOTOS). 24 October 2012 . 25 January 2018 . Hallie . Sekoff . .
  9. News: One woman's 80 dates with married men. 23 March 2013 . 25 January 2018 . Anna . Saunders . . London .
  10. Web site: This photographer dated 54 married men in nine months. 29 July 2015 . 25 January 2018 . Ashleigh . Kane . .
  11. Here Press' page about ONO is here
  12. Here Press' page about Married Man is here
  13. Gemma Padley, "“I am excited to work from the birthplace of photography,” Natasha Caruana tells BJP", British Journal of Photography, 8 August 2014. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  14. "BMW Art & Culture partenaire des Rencontres de la Photographie à Arles, présente “Coup de Foudre” de Natasha Caruana, lauréate 2014 de la Résidence BMW au musée Nicéphore Niépce.", BMW, 6 July 2015. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  15. Web site: Fine Presses, Artists' Books, and Book Arts. 25 January 2018 . .

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