Natalia Neuhaus is an artist and photographer originally from Lima, Peru. She began her career as a photojournalist before moving to the United States to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is rooted in examining aftermaths—the overlooked traces of conflict, industry, and stigma. She explores themes such as environmental contamination left behind by war and industry, as well as the complex realities of sex work, seeking to shift perception and highlight the dignity of those who freely choose this profession. Neuhaus views photography as a tool for visual knowledge—an act of witnessing that reveals hidden narratives, with projects emerging organically from encounters, curiosity, intuition, and self-reflection.
Neuhaus has received multiple accolades, including the Leica x VII Agency Mentorship Award (2022), Women Photograph Grant (2024), and most recently, she was awarded an Environmental Art Grant from Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
Natalia lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her wife and two dogs.
Published Work/Assignments/Interviews
Dazed Digital Interview
https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/56480/1/portraits-nyc-underground-burlesque-community-natalie-neuhause-mon-amour
VII Insider Interview
https://vii-insider.org/resource/new-voices-natalia-neuhaus/
Leica Blog: Intermission Interview
https://leica-camera.blog/2024/06/10/intermission/
LFI Healers: Sex Work as a Calling
https://lfi-online.de/en/stories/natalia-neuhaus-healers-sex-work-as-a-calling-20866.html
Konbini Arts Interview
https://www.konbini.com/arts/les-folles-coulisses-de-la-scene-burlesque-documentees-par-natalia-neuhaus/
NYT Magazine: Stroke EVT Assignment
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/magazine/evt-stroke-treatment.html
Dance Magazine: Beyond Non-Binary
https://www.dancemagazine.com/nonbinary-dancers
Individual Shows
Leica Gallery Boston – Greetings from Niagara – September 2024
Socorro Polivalente – Intermission – September 2023 – Lima, Peru
Group Shows
Leica Gallery Boston – If This Isn’t Love – September 2023
Orange Art Foundation – What is your Reality in the Pandemic – September 2020
Site: Brooklyn Gallery – Gesture and Motion – February 2019
Float Magazine – Instagram Takeover – December 2018
Pen + Brush Gallery – Furies, Fairies, Visionaries – September 2018
Belmar Arts Center – New Voices – August 2018
Signal Crossing – ICP Graduate Program Show – May 2018
Awards & Honorable Mentions
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 16th Edition – Honorable Mention for my NYC COVID Series in the following categories: B&W Series / Fine Art Series / Documentary & Reportage Series – May 2021
Center Santa Fe – Selected for the Santa Fe Portfolio Review – October 2021
Leica Women Foto Project x VII Mentor Program – 2022
L3 VII Alexandra Boulat Campus – Arles – 2023
VII Family Project Grant – 2023
Women Photograph Grant – 2024
Anonymous was a Woman Enviromental Grant 2025