ONO

Natasha Caruana posed as a bride-to-be and contacted women who were selling their wedding dresses online. In many instances, the faces in the photographs used to show the dresses had been obscured by the sellers. Caruana asked for high-resolution copies of these photographs: images originally made to validate a ceremony and now recycled as components of small ads. With their faces obscured, bride, groom and entourage become masked performers acting out emblematic scenes. Their personal stories and reasons for sale are left to the imagination. The antithesis of the trophy wedding album, ‘ONO’ focuses on the discarded props of the fairytale production and finds unintended meaning in the carefully staged images. 210 x 148mm, 24pp Digital indigo print on uncoated recycled paper Three hole hand stitched binding Wrapped in white archival tissue paper First edition, 150 copies, signed Published 2012 Sold out at source Press Photo-Eye Best Books of 2012 | Wayne Ford