Wig Out

• Photographer
  Natalie Truchsess
• Technical Info
  Canon Eos 600d
• Photo Date
  2015

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.

I learned my photographic craft 1986/87.After a specialized internship in film and studio production at Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1988, I worked for several years as a camera assistant in both analog and electronic recording.Over the last 35 years I increasingly have abstracted my visual language.In my current work, I use abstract photographs to explore the representation of the subliminal, the ineffable, and the ephemeral.New approaches to documentary photography drive my practice - through the movement of the camera (ICM), the contours of the subjects dissolve and merge with situational moods.