Lene Marie Fossen was an autodidact Norwegian photographer. She rejected the linear progression of time that forced her to go through puberty and stopped eating at the tender age of 10. She struggled with anorexia for the rest of her life. Fossen chose to be open about her disease and found her means of expression in photography. She is best known for her revealing self-portraits, captured in an abandoned lepra hospital in Chios, Greece. Fossen was a master of composition, colour and light, and her soulful portraits of victims of the refugee crisis on the island of Chios in Greece also bear witness of a unique photographer. ‘My photographs are not about Anorexia’ she said, ‘they are about human suffering.’ The documentary film Self-portrait featuring Lene Marie Fossen, produced by Margreth Olin, Katja Høgseth, and Espen Wallin, was released in 2020, a few months after Fossen had passed away. Self-portrait is a film about the power of art, but it also raises important questions about what treatment one who suffers from severe anorexia needs. The travelling exhibition ‘Gatekeeper’ with the book published by Kehrer Verlag premiered in 2020 and was presented in several galleries and festivals in Norway. Gatekeeper was presented at Helgeland Museum and Auckland Festival of Photography in 2021 and as a solo exhibition at Open Art Museum in St. Gallen, Switzerland from 2022-23. Other exhibitions include a solo exhibition organized by Nordic Light in Kristiansund in 2023, and participation in a group exhibition at Lëtzebuerg City Museum (Luxembourg).In May of 2025 works from The Gatekeeper will be presented alongside the film Selfportrait in a group exhibition entitled Me You We at The Cell in Stockholm. 2025 Groupshow - The Cell Stockholm