Lene Marie Fossen
{{Short description|Norwegian photographer (1986–2019)}}
Lene Marie Fossen (18 August 1986 - 22 October 2019) was a Norwegian photographer and artist.
Personal life and photography
Lene Marie Fossen suffered from Anorexia nervosa since age 10, stating she started to starve in order to prevent growing up.{{Cite web |title=Lene Marie Fossen - About |url=https://www.lenemariefossen.com/about-1 |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=Lene Marie Fossen |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2023-03-02 |title=Anorexia is the deadliest psychiatric disorder. Could psychedelics help? |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/e8dbeaea-9b65-41ae-a86a-07e9c4058456 |access-date=2023-03-21}}
She started learning photography as a teenager. The main focus of her work was black-and-white portraits of people. A 2017 exhibition of her self portraits depicting the effects of her struggle with anorexia, gained significant attention in Norway.{{Cite web |last=Fischer |first=Ms |date=2022-10-23 |title=The Fight She Lost |url=https://medium.com/illumination/the-fight-she-lost-6305d999e6eb |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=ILLUMINATION |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Bentzrud |first=Inger |date=2020-01-07 |title=Knapt sett noe sterkere |url=https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/knapt-sett-noe-sterkere/71997978 |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=dagbladet.no |language=no}} In interviews, and in a TED talk, she described her struggle between creativity and suffering from poor physical health.
She worked on a documentary about her life while taking portrait photos of Syrian refugee children in Greece in 2019.{{Cite web |title=Museum im Lagerhaus {{!}} Lene Marie Fossen – Human - Museum im Lagerhaus |url=https://arttv.ch/kunst/museum-im-lagerhaus-lene-marie-fossen-human/ |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=arttv.ch |language=de}} During this work, she suffered a car accident that caused her additional health issues. She died from the long term effects of her illness, aged 33. The documentary was aired after her death.{{Cite web |last=Ide|first=Wendy |title=‘The Self Portrait’: Thessaloniki Review |url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-self-portrait-thessaloniki-review/5150008.article |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=Screen |language=en}}
Further exhibitions of her photography art were presented in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Lene Marie Fossen - The Gatekeeper Exhibition |url=https://www.lenemariefossen.com/the-exhibition |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=Lene Marie Fossen |language=en-US}} She weighed 25 kg when she died.
References
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External links
- [https://www.ted.com/talks/lene_marie_fossen_morten_krogvold_nostalgia Lene Marie Fossen TED talk (in Norwegian)]
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