Linda Maria Thompson

Linda Maria Thompson (1978) is a Swedish-American photographer based in Ångermanland, northern Sweden. Working experimentally with plant-based photographic techniques, archival materials and a variety of documentary practices, she investigates how photography can contribute to a more socially and ecologically equitable world. Her investigations of the visualization of temporal and spatial migration resulted in exhibitions and two monographs, In Place of Memory (Teg Publishing, 2016) and Emigrant Memoir (Self-published, 2019). Linda has a background in photojournalism with a bachelor of arts in Photojournalism from the University of Montana where she also studied Natural Resource Conservation. She holds a Master of Arts in Photojournalism from Mid Sweden University, where she has been a permanent lecturer in photography at the Department of Design since 2016.