About

K Linnea Backe is a Norwegian photographer formerly based in NYC, but now living in Oslo, Norway, this partly due to the Covid virus situation.

She loves the analog process, both color and BW and sees it as as an artisanal way of working and as an alternative to the binary. She says: «I meet myself in the quietude of the darkroom and learn new things about the process and myself, I found my soul in there».

Linnea works through beauty, movement and discomfort to remind us about the fragility, importance and beauty of the life-dance we are all part of. Movement is also a tie to her photography from her earlier work as a musician. She sees us as restless beings of flux down to a cellular level and deeper. She also contemplates how life is movement on both a philosophical and physical level, making a visual expression of the musicality of life in a sense.

Her books is another form of expression that is important to her. The ideas grow organically and the books combine photographs and words, telling stories and contemplating atmosphere and feeling.

She is also photographing dance extensively and is currently collaboration with BalletNext on a project as their new house is opening in Park City, Utah.

Contact: +47 916 08 516 or kbacke19@students.icp.edu

Member of FFF - the Norwegain organization for photographers and camera based artists.

I am happy to do comissions and sell prints. Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Artist statement:

As a former musician, the study of tonality and form is important to me, as is the flow of the melodic line. Music is a way of saying without really saying, a medium to hide oneself to reveal oneself. It gives immense freedom but the freedom is contained, pared-down, as it is in photography. In photography, singular objects can be the means for looking without telling, for asking questions without giving answers. The examination of these simple objects in time, as they are touched by light, gives the viewer the power to see in darkness.