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 the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. [2]
Caruana's work is based around themes of love, betrayal and fantasy. [3] Her books include ONO (2012) [4] [5] and Married Man (2015). [1]
In 2014 she won the BMW Young Photographer-in-Residency at Nicéphore Niépce Museum, France. [6] Her work is held by the British Library in London. [7]
Caruana gained an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London in 2008. [8] [9]
She is a Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. [2]
Caruana's The Other Woman series, made in 2005, uses portraits she made of mistresses — women who have had affairs with married men. [1] [4] [10]
Her Fairytale for Sale series (and the book ONO) 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]
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. [1] [4] [10] [11] [12]
Caruana's work is held in the following public collections:
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