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2024

Wild Oat

  • Photographer
    Natalie Truchsess

Wild oat, frowned upon by farmers as a weed, promises healing as a Bach flower essence. In its ascetic beauty, it reminds me that there are different concepts of value and that everyone deserves to be loved in their uniqueness.

I learned my photographic craft from the photographer Valentin Schwab. During a specialized internship with him in 1986/87, I gained profound insights into the technique and aesthetics of documentary photography. After a specialized internship in film and studio production at Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1988, I worked for several years as a camera assistant, both in analogue and electronic film recording. Over the years, I have increasingly abstracted my visual language. In my current work, I explore the representation of the subliminal, the ineffable and the ephemeral with abstract photographs.