Natalie Chia is an East London–based photographer and spatial practitioner whose work explores how memory, cultural identity, and emotional presence are constructed through image and environment. A graduating student from the BA Fashion Photography programme at the London College of Fashion, Chia will continue her interdisciplinary practice at the Royal College of Art, where she is beginning an MA in Interior Design.

As her practice evolved between image-making and 3D experimentation, Chia began translating photographic thinking into immersive and speculative environments. Her work questions what is retained — and what disappears — when intimate cultural experiences are digitised, reconstructed, or displaced. In doing so, she approaches interior and spatial practice as a critical framework for examining memory, absence, and the emotional gap between physical and digital forms of inheritance.

Works shown in Luncheon Magazine, The Cold Magazine, Pap, Artego, worked with Teaspoon Projects, LondonConnector, The House of Whisky, Bristol Video Co., Sahara, Kakilang) Interior projects: (J Jade & Jewel, Komtar JBCC, The Setouchi Triennale and Art Setouchi, Koebi-tai)