Wig Out

• Photographer
  Natalie Truchsess
• Technical Info
  Canon EOS 600D
• Photo Date
  2015
• Website
  https://www.fotografie-natalie-truchsess.de

After being diagnosed with cancer my 18 year old niece, and subsequently going through chemo therapy, she asked me to have a photoshoot with her. We took a lot of classical serious looking model pictures, but suddenly she wanted to playfully defy what superficial standards the modeling industry imposes. She pulled of her wig and started having fun with the absurdity of the situation.

• Biography
  After training in photography and an internship at Bayerischer Rundfunk, I worked for several years as a camera assistant. Over time, my visual language shifted toward abstraction. My work begins with reality and explores what can emerge when subject, perception, and camera interact. I work with Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and developed my own technique, Remodel by Camera Movement (RCM), the basis of my Photographic Lyrical Abstraction. In my Emergographies, everyday things can develop an identity of their own. Together, they form my Photographic Wonder Room.
• Awards
  Awards and Prizes IPA 2026 — 3rd Place Winner, Special / Other FAPA 2025 — 1st Place Winner, Nature MonoVisions Awards 2025 — 3rd Place BIFA 2025 — 2× Silver TIFA 2025 — Silver & Bronze PX3 2025 — Silver & 2× Bronze B&W Spider Awards 2024 — Winner, Abstract Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2024 — Winner, Other Theme Series Pollux Awards 2024 — Winner, Nature Single BIFA 2024 — Bronze Winner Aesthetica Art Prize 2024 — Longlist Artist Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2023 — Winner, B&W Series BIFA 2023 — Silver Winner, Macro Royal Photographic Society IPE 165, 2023 — Shortlisted Exhibitions 2026 — Mythography VI: Jupiter and Bacchus, Trieste Photo Days — Charismatic Tendrils, Sala Arturo Nathan, Magazzino 26, Trieste, Italy 2025 — Galerie FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2024 — Galerie FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2023 — Galerie FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2022 — WOW – Worlds of Women, Trieste Photo Days, Trieste, Italy 2022 — Galerie FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2021–2022 — Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany