Natalia Neuhaus is a queer photographer who started her career in Lima, Peru, as a freelance photojournalist for newspapers and magazines. In 2007, she moved to the U.S. to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was mentored by Henry Wessel. Her gaze is deeply influenced by the violence that surrounded her childhood, a country desolated by terrorism, and also by the violence experienced at home.
Observing and understanding others became a form of survival that shaped how she photographs, whether it be photographing Baby Boomers aging alone in NYC, or NYC stillness during Covid shutdown, which received an honorable mention at The Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2021.
In 2017, she was one of the recipients of the Director’s scholarship at ICP, allowing her to attend the full-time documentary program. Since 2019, she’s been photographing the lives of burlesque performers in NYC. This project started as documentary work and transformed into a visual diary of those that became friends and the artists that live within this orbit. It is a community that has always defied gender norms and continues to push the boundaries against a world that persists in defining morality and societal behaviors.
In 2022, Neuhaus was one of three women accepted into the Leica – VII Agency Mentorship award.
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
Group Shows
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