Shot on DVCAM in 2005 (completed in 2013), this no budget portrait of veteran NYC art photographer Linda Troeller. Shot in NYC, Bad Sulza Germany, Arles and rural France. The film features a visit with French photo pioneer, Lucien Clergue, in his iconic Arles photo studio. Lucien was founder of the Arles Photo Festival.  Also included is an interview with Nathalie Casabo-Emprin (Galerie NCE Photographie/Paris). Nathalie was a top photo agent for many celebrated photographers of the 1980/90s, including Linda Troeller, Ralph Gibson, Lucien Clergue, Arno Minkkinen, Eikoh Hosoe and others.

In this digital age when nothing is new – only new interpretations, Troeller’s images are rare, vitally present, surviving as a window to an era of photography fleeting by. Like an impressionist painter from another time, her photographs evoke the moment as seen through the memory of it. My film asks, “How does she so instinctively capture sensually charged images? What is ecstatic? What is real? What powers emit from her images to ‘stay’ in our consciousness?

The film uncovers how she made her unique style. From a High School Prom queen to photo model for landmark photographers, Ansel Adams & Lucien Clergue, to forty years as a veteran photographer enraptured by TB-AIDS, sexuality and the erotic, and a sense of place and culture in her one time Hotel Chelsea artist’s home.

Recently two of Troeller’s photographs were selected as first and second prize in the American Lucie Photography Awards in NYC. Over twenty-two thousand entries competed for this distinction. As a veteran photographer of over forty years, Troeller is exceptional.

In a business which can crush the creative fire as quickly as it can be lit, she continues to focus on the world behind her closed eyes – her imagination, realized as photographs. 

Visit Linda Troeller’s website to view more of her work.