Natasha Caruana’s personal experience became the genesis for the series ‘Lying Still- Portraits of the Other Woman’. Caruana set out to meet and document other women like herself- to find out how it felt being the ‘other woman’ and in order to help her come to terms with her own situation. She placed ads in Time Out magazine and numerous local papers asking for women who were in relationships with married men and willing to share their story.
The work explores the range of stories and diversity of women who have experienced affairs with married men- questioning the secretiveness and unease felt by a majority of them. Many continue with their relationships, some recognise it is a half life, others enjoy the risqué adventure of their liaisons, whilst many have ended their relationships no longer willing to deal with the emotional instability.