Natasha Caruana (born 1983) is a photographic artist who works with still photography, moving image and installation. She is based in London and is a Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK.
Caruana's work is based around themes of love, betrayal and fantasy."Natasha Caruana in conversation with Celia Davies", Photoworks, 12 September 2017. Accessed 28 January 2018. Her books include ONO (2012) and Married Man (2015).
In 2014 she won the BMW Young Photographer-in-Residency at Nicéphore Niépce Museum, France. Her work is held by the British Library in London.
Life and work Caruana gained an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London in 2008."Natasha Caruana", Bloomsbury Publishing. Accessed 25 January 2018.
She is a Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK."Natasha Caruana", University for the Creative Arts. Accessed 25 January 2018.
Caruana's The Other Woman series, made in 2005, uses portraits she made of mistresses — women who have had affairs with married men.
Her Fairytale for Sale series (and the book ONO) is about women who sell their wedding dresses online. Using email, Caruana posed as a potential buyer and the women sent her photographs of them wearing their dress, in which they obscured their and their partner's face. They also provided a description of why they were selling the dress, which partially describes why they obscured the faces. Caruana used both the photographs and text in her work.
Her Married Man series is about infidelity. Caruana posed on dating websites aimed at men seeking affairs. She went on 80 dates with 54 men in 2008 and 2009, deceptively making snapshot photographs and secretly recording audio.
Publications Publications by Caruana ONO. London: Here, 2012. Edition of 150 copies.Here Press' page about ONO is here Married Man. London: Here, 2015. . With transcriptions by Caruana. Edition of 500 copies.Here Press' page about Married Man is here Coup de Foudre. Paris: Trocedero / BMW Art and Culture, 2015.
Publication paired with another Basics Creative Photography 03: Behind the Image: Research in Photography. London: AVA, 2012. . With Anna Fox.
Publication with contribution by Caruana Hijacked III: Australia / United Kingdom. Cottesloe, WA: Big City Press; Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2012. . Edited by Mark McPherson, Louise Clements, and Leigh Robb. With texts by Clements and McPherson. Exhibition catalogue.
Award 2014: BMW Young Photographer-in-Residency at Nicéphore Niépce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saône, FranceGemma 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."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.
Collections Caruana's work is held in the following public collections: British Library, London
, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
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"Video: Natasha Caruana, House Biennial 2017 Photoworks Co-commission"