Sharing Experience is a new series of zoom lectures and Q&A with international photo artists and professionals, presenting their projects and sharing their work experience. SE is organized by Norwegian photographer K Linnea Backe i association with CYAN studio.

Ep.1: - Ellen Carey (b.1952 US)
educator, independent scholar, guest curator,
photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique experimental work spans several decades.
Carey will present her lecture
“Back to the Future - the avant-garde is an address”

Ellen Carey, a Pictures Generation contemporary and member of Buffalo’s avant-garde — Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo — upends the medium's collective histories in art and technology with abstract, minimal “picture” signs.

Photography Degree Zero and Struck by Light names her twin practices, while Pictus & Writ supports her creative tripod with writing. The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) named Carey one of the top 100 women photographers worldwide - Hundred Heroines - one of 14 Americans.

She emphasizes drawing with light, photography’s indexical; light with color, underscored in process and approach, is her performative record: a visual all - or - nothing (zero). Her photographs no longer represents object-subject relations but rather the twin interplay of light and shadow, stark in black and white minimalism while freeing color itself into a kaleidoscope of abstraction.
Well developed in the 20th century in — Abstract Expressionism, Minimal, Conceptual Art — Carey’s photographic pictures of nothing upend the medium's collective histories asking us now: “What is photography?” Or “Is it a photograph”?

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Conversation moderator:
K Linnea Backe
is a Norwegian photographer
currently based in Oslo. She works mainly in the analog processes; both color and BW and likes to do everything herself - from the development of the film to the darkroom work. She also photographs dance extensively and makes portraits.