Natasha Cantwell

Natasha Cantwell’s work, which spans music videos, editorial photography, and art projects, openly embraces awkwardness while drawing from the absurdity of human behavior. Her hand-printed analogue photographs and 16mm experimental films have been exhibited worldwide, including at the U.S. festival Experiments in Cinema, and the European Media Art Festival and Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media in Germany. Cantwell holds a Bachelor of Graphic Design and a Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design from AUT. She has guest lectured at Unitec and MIT in New Zealand and presented at Semi Permanent Design Conference in Australia as the senior photographer for Frankie Magazine.

Specializing in fashion, portraiture, still life and environments, her editorial photography has captured the beautifully strange details of everyday life for a wide range of publications, including Elle UK, Ladygunn, No, Pavement, Dumbo Feather, Lunch Lady, and Smith Journal, as well as fashion labels Miss Crabb, Penny Sage and Madame Hawke. As a film programmer, Cantwell founded the Auckland Underground Film Festival and has produced events for Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival. Since 2018 she has curated archival and contemporary street photography for the Victorian Archives Centre Gallery. Working between New Zealand and Australia, she is currently based in Melbourne.

Video edited by: Dean Taylor