Natalie Karpushenko

Natalie Karpushenko’s practice is rooted in the essential connection between the female body and the natural world, particularly the water. Her photographs are both aesthetic gestures and visual activism, advocating for the planet while reflecting on our disconnection from the wild. Through beauty, vulnerability, and immersion, they suggest the possibility of return.

For Karpushenko, water is not just a setting but a place of origin—a space where the human body, stripped of artifice, becomes part of something vast and elemental. Her subjects, often nude and submerged, embody vulnerability, trust, and surrender.

The female form in her work is not sexualised, but seen as a pure expression of nature. This undress is both physical and emotional: a shedding of layers that reveals a quiet, primal beauty—raw, fragile, and deeply connected to the living world.