Nath-Sakura

Nath-Sakura
File:Nathalia-aout2006d.jpg Nath-Sakura
Born	Girona Spain
Occupation(s)	fine art photography journalist

Nath-Sakura (born September 11, 1973 in Girona) is a Catalan-Spanish photographer. She is of unknown parents and was raised in an orphanage. She became a photographer because "she couldn’t paint", as she explained to Art Nou, the Catalan reference art magazine.

Biography

In her early years, Nath-Sakura became a PhD graduate in political philosophy. Then, she took up a career as a professional reporter and later decided to have a sex change. Her work is mostly about this movement in-between genders and aims at showing with great subtlety the « metaphysical brutality » there is in being born again.

She now lives in the South of France, near Montpellier and works for a great many non-specialized daily and weekly newspapers as a photo reporter. To date she has published five photography books and she has been given a central importance in many prestigious exhibitions. She is notably one of the associated artists of the very fashionable Bertold Foundation in Lugano, Switzerland.

Both a photo reporter and an art photographer, Nath-Sakura shows the real in a tragic and quirky way through pictures yielding themselves to multiple layers of reading. She is now a well-known and singular artist among European photographers.

Exhibitions

• 2004 - Museum of Contemporan Art of Barcelona, Sapin (Macba). II Prague, Czech Republic. Reporting from Gaza, Palestine, children of mixed couples (Israelis / Palestinians).
• 2005 - Exhibition "Art in prison," Villeneuve-les-Maguelone. Exhibition in the Saint-Sulpice church, Montpellier, France. Prize winner of the photojournalism festival in Melbourne, Australia.
• 2006 - Photographic artbook "Powers" (Map editor). Exhibition at the tavern of Chaos, Paris, France. Gallery Albertini, Dijon, France. Exhibition and artist associated Bertold Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland. Gallery Què Pasa, Vigo, Spain. Gallery W & V, Berlin, Germany.
• 2007 - Photographic Collection "duality" (LDP editor). Tarot Eve and / Tarot nathcsf2007.jpg Lilith, exposed to Alet-les-Bains and Marseille, France. Vauban National Exhibition, National Maritime Museum in Toulon, France. Balaguier Museum exhibition - La Seyne-sur-Mer. Arte Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• 2008 - Exhibition "contradictory", the Divan du Monde, Paris, France. Photographic collection "Pervy Obsessions (Ragage editor). Exhibition Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain. Restaurant Sketch Exhibition, London, United Kingdom. Exhibition at Centro Cultural De La Villa, Plaza de Colon, Madrid.
• 2009 - Reports and photographic illustrations "A woman, two men, three eyes (Ragage editor). Intervener to seated body transformed, Faculty of Law of Montpellier. Exhibition "To finish once and for all with photography," In my gallery, your home , Nîmes, France.
• 2010 - Exhibition "Everything Lust go" Backstage Gallery, Marseille, France.
• 2011 - Exhibition "Ergo sum", The Showcase Gallery, Arles, France (February). Exhibition "icon (s) vs Lilith Eve," MUSEAAV, Nice, France (March). Exhibition "Between them," Concord Art Gallery, Paris, France (April). Sponsor of the Festival "313730.php Supernova "in Montpellier, France (May). Exhibition "Res Cogitans" in Chai du Terral Saint-Jean-de-Vedas (Hérault) in May. Gallery Hoche, Versailles, France, June.

Bibliography

• Pouvoirs, Map éditions, 2005
• Dualités, LP, 2006
• Vauban à Toulon, l'arsenal et la rade, Musée national de la marine, 2007
• Pervy Obsessions, Thomas Ragage éditeur, 2008
• 1 femme, 2 hommes, 3 regards, Thomas Ragage éditeur, 2009
• Fatales, preface by Christophe Mourthé, texts by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, Editions Victoria ISBN 978-2-9542917-0-3

External links

• Official website
• Official blog
• Nath-Sakura books in French

• Template:Es icon Article on Nath-Sakura in El Païs
• Template:Fr icon Article on Nath-Sakura in Midi Libre
• Template:Fr icon Article on Nath-Sakura in La Gazette de Montpellier