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摄影师Natalie Christensen居住在新墨西哥（美国）Santa Fe，这里给了她在看似平常的街道与景观中寻找精神上的象征的灵感。她几乎每一天都会带上她的数码相机，去寻找这样的画面。Natalie之前是一位心理医生，她将摄影视为心理医生这项工作的拓展工作，因为它们同时激发着Natalie去探索那些平时容易被大家忽略的表象之下的内容。自然有时候会避免呈现困难和痛苦的一面，但是Natalie偶尔会窥探到自然所隐藏的震撼人心的一面，于她而言，一旦窥见，便如同发掘了珍宝。她只在生活的周边寻求照片的灵感来源，购物中心，公寓，办公园区都是她拍摄照片的地方。Natalie 将这些场景分解为纯粹的色块，几何图形以及光影关系。她用精心设计过的图像记录了一个不同于寻常人眼中的Santa Fe。去发现人们认为无趣或经常忽略的场所中的美是她更愿意也经常做的事情，因为发掘这些平凡无奇的场景中隐喻的内涵是令Natalie振奋的挑战。
▼ Permanent Stain
▼ Escapism
▼ Container of Dreams
▼ Temptress
▼ Circle and Square
Natalie Christensen lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA) where she is inspired to look for psychological metaphors in commonplace architecture and streetscapes. She shoot with a digital camera and she does this nearly everyday. Natalie has spent much of her career as a psychotherapist, and she sees photography as an extension of that work. Both have called her to explore what is hidden from view, those aspects of self or environment that we may prefer to ignore. She suspects it is our nature to avoid what is difficult or painful, but sometimes she gets a glimpse of the sublime in these places. When she finds it, it feels like she has discovered gold. She does not go anywhere special to make her photographs; instead she find her images around shopping malls, apartment complexes and office parks. Natalie dismantle these scenes to color fields, geometry and shadow. The places she frequents for her images are probably not what people visualize when they think of Santa Fe, a city with a carefully cultivated image. While she enjoys seeing the beauty in this city, she prefers to shoot in locations that may be viewed as uninteresting or even visually off-putting. This is exciting and challenging for her, to see the metaphorical hiding in plain sight.
▼ Go Deeper
▼ Blue Van
▼ What are you not dealing with
▼Speed Hump
▼ Visible Wounds
