
Natalie Truchsess
Born: 1963
Hometown: Würzburg
Based in: Frankfurt am Main
Born: 1963
Hometown: Würzburg
Based in: Frankfurt am Main
Natalie Truchsess' photographs of ephemeral forms go far beyond imitative still life and macro photography.
In her pictures, she succeeds in using photographic methods to work out the abstract aesthetics that are already inherent in nature.
These ambiguous interpretations offer the viewer scope for their own metaphorical associations.
Her photos from “Ambiguous Objects” have won several awards at international photography competitions.
Natalie Truchsess was born 1963 in Würzburg, Germany. She learned her photographic craft from the photographer and filmmaker Valentin Schwab 1986/87. After a specialized internship in film and studio production at Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1988, she worked for several years as a camera assistant, both in analogue and electronic film recording. After further training in 1992 as a sound technician at the SRT (Schule für Rundfunktechnik), she moved to Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt and worked in radio engineering until 2018. As a passionate photographer, she has abstracted her visual language more and more over the years. In her current work, she also explores the representation of the subliminal and ineffable.
Her photos have won several awards at international photography competitions like B&W Spider Awards, Monovision Awards, IPA, PX3, TIFA, BIFA, FAPA, ND Awards, Pollux Award, JMCA. Next exhibition with photos from her will be July 2025 at the FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona.
What inspires you?
Light and shadow, color, structure
Describe your creative process.
Inspired by the peculiarity of an everyday detail, I try to penetrate the essence of the motif while photographing in order to discover the unknown in the known.
What are 3 words that best describe your work?
Profound, ambiguous, creative
Who are some artists that have influenced your work?
Albert Renger-Patzsch, Aaron Siskind, Karl Blossfeldt, André Kertész, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Antoni Tàpies, Fernando Zóbel, Luis Feito, Margarethe von Diringshofen, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Claude Monet, William Turner, Francisco de Goya, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo, Caspar David Friedrich...
What is the most important tool when creating your work?
Inspiration
What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
Moving on and staying true to yourself
Where do you go for inspiration?
I don't plan, I let myself be surprised.
Awards
19. Black & White Spider Awards 2024, Abstract Winner
2024
BIFA Budapest Photo Awards 2023 Silver in Special, Macro
2023