LINN SCHRÖDER / PORTFOLIO

A leisurely dressed little girl with a pink ribbon in her hair is knocking at the door. At first glance this scene seems to be depicted from a highly staged TV-series or even a horror movie. But looking more closely, the spectator will realize that it is nothing more than an incidentally found real situation. At a second glance the spectator will discover that the  supposedly real façade is a pure fake and that the whole setting is part of a gastronomic enterprise with chairs and tables waiting for customers. The little girl is not an actor but a playful infant tourist who fell - stimulated by her naive curiosity - into the trap of a falsified `as-if`-reality.

Such quite ambivalent and intermediate zones of visual perception are a recurring theme within Linn Schröders wide spanning body of photographic work. In order to find images like this Linn Schröder invests a lot of time and patience. Her working method is quite similar to that of classical street photography. Nothing is being set up or staged. On the contrary, Linn Schröder steps with her camera right into reality and waits for the „decisive moment“ to come. (Nicole Büsing & Heiko Klaas)

Linn Schröder lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin. She graduated in communication design/photography from the University of Applied Studies / HAW, Hamburg, in 2004, and in visual communication from the University of Fine Arts /HfbK, Hamburg, in 2006. She took courses at the Photography Department of the Zurich University of the Arts /ZHdK in 2005. Linn Schröder is a member of Ostkreuz – Photographers Agency in Berlin since 2004. She had teaching assignments at the Weißensee School of Art, Berlin, and the Ostkreuz – School for Photography, Berlin.

With a nomination by Ingo Taubhorn, curator of the Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, in Hamburg, Linn Schröder has been awarded the European Photo Exhibition Award. The new series of works will be shown there in May 2012 /Opening: 2 May 2012 move to Paris in autumn 2012 /during Paris Photo, followed by Lucca in November 2012 /during Lucca Photo Fest and finally Oslo in March 2013 /Nobel Peace Center.