About Photographer - Cathleen Naundorf was born in 1968 in Saxony-Anhalt (then GDR), which she and her family left in 1985 to move to Munich. She was trained as a sculptor and painter at the Academy of Fine Arts, Burg Giebenstein, as a photographer at the Fachoberschule fur Gestaltung (upper secondary school specialised in design) in Munich and worked as an assistant photographer in places such as New York, Singapore and Paris. Today, Cathleen Naundorf is a freelance photographer who lives and works in Paris.
Her artistic career and her photography have been shaped by her love to people and cultures on the one hand and by her special affinity towards the world of fashion and beauty on the other hand.
Cathleen Naundorf?s search for boundary experiences and for inspiration through the unknown as well as the desire to capture such experiences in pictures have been the drive for her travelling the world with a camera ever since the mid-1990s. She has thus visited numerous countries in northern Europe and in South America. For many months she lived and worked among Mongolian peoples and among the Yanomami, who live in the upper Amazon reservoir and belong to the last Indian peoples in the world. She published in magazines like Geo, Globo, Carvallo and Abenteuer und Reisen.
In the late 1990s - inspired by her encounter and long-lasting friendship with Horst P. Horst - Cathleen Naundorf began to focus on fashion photography. This engagement enabled her to work as a photographer at the glamorous Paris fashion shows and fashion editorial shoots on behalf of well-known fashion magazines (Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitain, Marie Claire, Amica, Glamour, etc.) and commercial work like Shellkampagne, ARD Tagesschau, Bayrischer Rundfunk, Fashioncatalogue Fendi Boutique. For many years she also worked as a fashion correspondent for Sueddeutsche Zeitung (the big daily national German newspaper) and realised numerous special projects as e.g. "Les colisses de la mode" with Haute Couture Sticker Francois Lesage. Further projects were realised with the fashion boutiques John Galliano, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix.
Today Cathleen Naundorf is among few photographers that can claim to possess both a great photographic wealth of experience and comprehensive artistic graphical material in the fields of Ethnic and Fashion/ Couture. Her most important stylistic device is now the Polaroid that - due to the long exposure time of her large-format cameras - almost seems to merge both fields in the magical moment of the shooting when the model seductively sways between authenticity and narcism, i.e. between Ethnic and Fashion/ Couture.
Martin Fervers, Amsterdam / Cologne
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