Tarona (b. 1985, Curaçao) is an artist and director whose work spans photography and film, seamlessly moving between autonomous and commercial realms. Central to her practice is a deep engagement with identity, human experience, and new perspectives on seeing and being. She is especially committed to creating space for the Black Diaspora, exploring the complexities of belonging to multiple racial and cultural backgrounds while simultaneously uncovering the magic often hidden in the intersections of identity and culture. She uses photography as an explorative tool, focusing on details, textures, and frameworks to highlight often-overlooked subtleties. In contrast, her approach to film often emphasises the intangible — the emotions, rhythms and atmospheres that elude words. These ways of working and operating are the baseline of Tarona’s natural movement throughout the world; creating a self-coded ‘lingua franca’ — a language used for communication between people who do not share a native language in which she utilizes visual language as the equalizer. Through her work, she aims to create dialogues around identity and self-expression, seeking to inspire others to embrace their full selves — a commitment she hopes will resonate across time, space and generations.