Spa Journeys
A multimedia slide lecture with informative and atmospheric images of the world’s great spas and hot springs chosen from her two books, “Spa Journeys” (powerHouseBooks) and “Healing Waters” (Aperture). As a highlight Linda will also talk about the profitability of ambiance and asethetics and the role of art in spas showing examples of her “spa art photography” collected by Marion Schneider and Klaus Böhm in the Hotel an der Therme, the Klinikzentrum Bad Sulza and Liquidrom.
After the presentation there will be a guided tour of her works on display in situ in Bad Sulza and Linda will be signing her book “Healing Waters”.
Linda Troeller
New Yorker photographer Linda Troeller is known for her awarding winning book “Healing Waters” (Aperture) with atmospheric art images at hot springs and for the travel book “Spa Journeys” (powerHouseBooks). She was commissioned to create 33 photo paintings in the Liquidrom Spa, Berlin. She is also known for portraiture which led to the book “Erotic Lives of Women” with writer Marion Schneider, reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and exhibited in Berlin and Salzburg. She won Woman of the Year for her photo-collages “TB-AIDS DIARY” that was translated into seven languages and exhibited around the world including the Foto Galerie Forum in Frankfurt.
She has a M.F.A. in Photography from the School of Art, Syracuse University and was an assistant at the Ansel Adams Workshops. Her photographs are in major museum collections and she also shoots campaigns for beauty and fashion companies ranging from Kurotel, Brazil to Feline Day Spa, NYC. She is currently working on a photo book about the artists of the Chelsea Hotel where she has her studio. She is represented by Agence Vu in Paris, Grazia Neri in Italy and zumapress in the USA.