Background information
"She wanted to stop time when she was ten years old and stopped eating in order not to grow up. Lene Marie FOSSEN rejected the linear progression of time that forced her to go through puberty. She chose to be open about her disease and found her means of expression in photography. Beginning in the mid-70’s, eating disorders reached threatening numbers in societies. Today, they are the third most common cause of death among young women in Europe. Lene Marie FOSSEN sadly passed away on October 22, 2019; she was only thirty-three years old. The documentary film 'Self-Portrait' will be screened in cinemas in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France and Germany from January 2020 on. Her unabashed self-portraits bear witness to an inner conflict and are both cruel and beautiful.
Content
The present publication, 'The Gatekeeper', pays tribute to Lene Marie FOSSEN as an artist, but also reveals the difficult path she chose to take – and that anorexia is a serious illness and cannot be trivialized." (© Kehrer Verlag, 2020)
About Norwegian photographer, Lene Marie FOSSEN
Photo books by Lene Marie FOSSEN
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- (ed.) Arno Rafael MINKKINEN
- Format
- Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 22 x 29 cm., 100 pp., color & b/w ills., text language: English