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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 theUniversity for the Creative Arts,Farnham, UK.[2]

Caruana's work is based around themes of love, betrayal and fantasy.[3]Her books includeONO(2012)[4][5]andMarried Man(2015).[1]

In 2014 she won the BMW Young Photographer-in-Residency at Nicéphore Niépce Museum, France.[6]Her work is held by theBritish Libraryin London.[7]

Life and work[edit]

Caruana gained an MA in Photography from theRoyal College of Art,London in 2008.[8][9]

She is a Senior Lecturer of Photography at theUniversity for the Creative Arts,Farnham, UK.[2]

Caruana'sThe Other Womanseries, made in 2005, uses portraits she made ofmistresses— women who have hadaffairswith married men.[1][4][10]

HerFairytale for Saleseries (and the bookONO) is about women who sell their wedding dresses online.[1][10]Using email, Caruana posed as a potential buyer and the women sent her photographs of them wearing their dress,[5]in which they obscured their and their partner's face.[4]They also provided a description of why they were selling the dress, which partially describes why they obscured the faces.[4]Caruana used both the photographs and text in her work.[4]

HerMarried Manseries is aboutinfidelity.Caruana posed ondating websitesaimed at men seeking affairs. She went on 80dateswith 54 men in 2008 and 2009, deceptively makingsnapshot photographsand secretly recording audio.[1][4][10][11][12]

Publications[edit]

Publications by Caruana[edit]

  • ONO.London: Here, 2012. Edition of 150 copies.[n 1]
  • Married Man.London: Here, 2015.ISBN9780957472495.With transcriptions by Caruana. Edition of 500 copies.[n 2]
  • Coup de Foudre.Paris: Trocedero /BMWArt and Culture, 2015.

Publication paired with another[edit]

Publication with contribution by Caruana[edit]

  • Hijacked III: Australia / United Kingdom.Cottesloe, WA: Big City Press; Heidelberg:Kehrer,2012.ISBN978-3-86828-285-6.Edited by Mark McPherson, Louise Clements, and Leigh Robb. With texts by Clements and McPherson. Exhibition catalogue.

Award[edit]

Collections[edit]

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

Notes[edit]

  1. ^Here Press' page aboutONOishere
  2. ^Here Press' page aboutMarried Manishere

References[edit]

  1. ^abcdeSaner, Emine (25 August 2015)."Portrait of an adulterer: secret shots of 50 married men I met on dating websites".The Guardian.London.Retrieved25 January2018.
  2. ^ab"Natasha Caruana",University for the Creative Arts.Accessed 25 January 2018.
  3. ^"Natasha Caruana in conversation with Celia Davies",Photoworks,12 September 2017. Accessed 28 January 2018.
  4. ^abcdefCoomes, Phil (3 February 2012)."Natasha Caruana's secret subjects".BBC News.Retrieved26 January2018.
  5. ^ab"Photography: ONO, By Natasha Caruana".The Independent.London. 19 February 2012.Retrieved25 January2018.
  6. ^abGemma 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.
  7. ^ab"Fine Presses, Artists' Books, and Book Arts".British Library.Retrieved25 January2018.
  8. ^"Natasha Caruana",Bloomsbury Publishing.Accessed 25 January 2018.
  9. ^Dehkordi, Afshin (15 October 2012)."Frieze 2012 and the contemporary art fair: a good or bad thing for artists?".The Guardian.London.Retrieved25 January2018.
  10. ^abcSekoff, Hallie (24 October 2012)."Natasha Caruana's 'The Married Man': Artist Secretly Documents 80 Dates With Cheating Husbands (PHOTOS)".HuffPost.Retrieved25 January2018.
  11. ^Saunders, Anna (23 March 2013)."One woman's 80 dates with married men".The Daily Telegraph.London.Retrieved25 January2018.
  12. ^Kane, Ashleigh (29 July 2015)."This photographer dated 54 married men in nine months".Dazed.Retrieved25 January2018.
  13. ^"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.

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