Dek Unu Magazine - Natalia Rudychev

Natalia Rudychev is one of a growing number of artist-photographers for whom analog, antiquarian, and “alternative” processes are an increasingly attractive option. She is a multi-disciplinary artist: photographer, haiku and tanka writer, sumi-e painter, and classical dancer whose work is so entwined with her life that she considers herself a “living work of art.” An adept at lumen print, anthotype, cyanotype, matte medium transfers, alcohol lifts, and many more “alt-processes,” Rudychev intentionally selects and combines techniques to perfectly match the meaning and mood of each of her thoroughly-contemporary images. Unlike other conceptualists, whose work sometimes seems emotionally arid, Natalia’s work is a sensual delight, conveying her definite ideas in delicious colors, delicate details, and the sense of art and life that Japanese aesthetics calls wabi-sabi. Natalia's introspective, graceful, and poetic words and pictures update photography's creative tradition.