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Natalie Truchsess germany
Photo © Natalie Truchsess
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Longing For Life
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As a documentary photographer, my goal is to portray the world as it appears to me in its complexity. To reduce the images more to atmosphere, I work with a technique of moving the camera quickly to blur the contours (ICM). This technique also allows me to intuit hidden aspects of my reality. By dissolving the contours, light and colors take on a greater importance over the subjects. Light and colors also communicate more strongly through feeling, rather than reason, and so can better convey moods. Just as poetry can be seen as a highly individual engagement with the world, intuitively understood beyond words because it penetrates realms that elude the mind, the visual language of my photographs allows me to speak in lyrical abstraction about the complexity of my reality.
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As a documentary photographer, my goal is to portray the world as it appears to me in its complexity. To reduce the images more to atmosphere, I work with a technique of moving the camera quickly to blur the contours (ICM). This technique also allows me to intuit hidden aspects of my reality. By dissolving the contours, light and colors take on a greater importance over the subjects. Light and colors also communicate more strongly through feeling, rather than reason, and so can better convey moods. Just as poetry can be seen as a highly individual engagement with the world, intuitively understood beyond words because it penetrates realms that elude the mind, the visual language of my photographs allows me to speak in lyrical abstraction about the complexity of my reality.
about the photographer
I learned my photographic craft from the photographer Valentin Schwab. During a specialized internship with him in 1986/87, I gained profound insights into the technique and aesthetics of documentary photography. After a specialized internship in film and studio production at state television Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1988, I worked for several years as a camera assistant, both in analogue and electronic film recording. Over the years, I have increasingly abstracted my visual language. In my current work, I explore the representation of the subliminal, the ineffable and the ephemeral with abstract photographs.back to gallery
