Reconnecting With The Divine Muse

Photographed by Natalie Karpushenko.

Natalie Karpushenko is a Kazakhstanian photographer and environmentalist who began her creative journey as a photographer at the young age of eighteen. Since then, through fine art education, travel, and bare passion, she has achieved to build a brand for herself and her message while capturing the two true creators of life, women and the earth.

​​From the gentle curvatures of the female body, to the firm and dramatic patterns that stretch throughout our planet’s skin; Natalie captures in various frames a female muse nestled upon the surface of a breathtaking ecosystem and in some instances, harmoniously blending with animals. She represents the natural spiritual connection between the human and the earth by displaying its primal beauty.

Her photography elevates women into an ethereal organism that cohexists, blends, and alienates to mother earth’s frequency. Soft angles, a minimal editing style along with a clever use of lighting; Natalie’s muses play the mother and at the same time, become the kin that sits in the womb of gaia. Vulnerable, intimate, and elegant, the bodies of subjects sprawl and lounge comfortably upon natural surfaces, as if once again, returning to the natural flow that carries the cycle of life.

Reconnecting With The Divine Muse

Credits:

Photographer: Natalie Karpushenko / @nataliekarpushenko
Words: Ethel Romero / @_bby_ella_

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