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.

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.