Still Life - Amateur

Affectionate
Natalie Truchsess
Germany

Nominee
Still Life
Amateur

"Affectionate"
This dried vine tendril, with its tender and protective character, has been shaped by the challenges of growth and is perfect in its uniqueness, with its own beauty, beyond stereotypes and norms.

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. Awards and Prizes IPA 2026 — 3rd Place Winner, Special / Other FAPA 2025 — 1st Place Winner, Nature MonoVisions Awards 2025 — 3rd Place BIFA 2025 — 2× Silver TIFA 2025 — Silver & Bronze PX3 2025 — Silver & 2× Bronze B&W Spider Awards 2024 — Winner, Abstract Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2024 — Winner, Other Theme Series Pollux Awards 2024 — Winner, Nature Single BIFA 2024 — Bronze Winner Aesthetica Art Prize 2024 — Longlist Artist Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2023 — Winner, B&W Series BIFA 2023 — Silver Winner, Macro Royal Photographic Society IPE 165, 2023 — Shortlisted Exhibitions 2026 — Mythography VI: Jupiter and Bacchus, Trieste Photo Days — Charismatic Tendrils, Sala Arturo Nathan, Magazzino 26, Trieste, Italy 2025 — Galerie FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2024 — Galerie FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2023 — Galerie FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2022 — WOW – Worlds of Women, Trieste Photo Days, Trieste, Italy 2022 — Galerie FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2021–2022 — Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany



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