I was born queer, mildly autistic and afflicted by multiple autoimmune conditions. I started Vulnerable Valiance project during suicide prevention month. It is dedicated to all those who have lost the ability to express themselves due to prejudices and stigma associated with difference.
Handmade photographic prints (pigment lift transfers to washi paper) that form this body of work invite appreciation of the imperfect beauty of being alive.
Vulnerable Valiance series was born after years of photography practice, meditation and the wabi-sabi lifestyle.
The images in this project are like visual haiku poems. They are open to multiple interpretations. I invite people to pause, to find beauty in things imperfect and incomplete, and to appreciate the fleeting beauty of here and now.
Difference is often not treated kindly. I create with the aim to change that. I am inspired by the philosophical ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari expressed in A Thousand Plateaus: becoming is never a majoritarian it is always minoritarian.
Natalia L Rudychev
Natalia L Rudychev is an award-winning Russian-born New York and Paris based photographer, multidisciplinary artist (writer, performer, print maker) and curator. She is best known for her work with the aesthetics of wabi-sabi.
Natalia’s work has been exhibited in New York at Foley Gallery, Soho Photo Gallery, Culture Lab LIC, Westbeth Art Gallery, Brooklyn Art Cave, Cargo Project Gallery, as well as in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, Chicago and internationally in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Glasgow, Le Mans and Tokyo where her work on sustainability was awarded the Bronze Prize.
The artist's recent achievements include Gold Prize in Analog Sparks Film Photography Awards 2024 and 1st Prize in International Photography Awards 2024
Her work is in the public collections of the California State Library, Haiku Literature Museum in Japan and Duquesne University Library. Her haiku photobooks have been awarded. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a member of The Photo Group, a poet, a dancer, and studied Philosophy of Art in the PHD program at Duquesne University.
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