Tuija Lydia Elisabeth Lindström (5 May 1950 – 26 December 2017) was a

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photographer, artist and professor of photography at School of Photography and Film,

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, 1992–2001. She lived and worked in

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, Sweden. In the early 1990s, she became very noted for her black and white pictures of women floating in a black lake, known as ''Girls at Bull's Pond''.Photo
/ref> Her pictures at this time addressed feminist issues but from a different perspective than has previously been customary in Sweden. She has held several international exhibitions and is represented in particular at the

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, the Houston Art Museum in the U.S., and

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. Her 2012 exhibition ''A Dream If Ever There Was One'' at the Hasselblad Center in

presented an overview of her work including landscapes, portraits, nudes and still lifes in collaboration with Helsinki's

. Lindström was Sweden's first female professor in photography at the University of Gothenburg, establishing a master's programme and laying the foundations for ongoing photographic research.

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