Tine Poppe

Tine Poppe (born Kristine Hildur Poppe; 1957) is a Norwegian photographer based in Oslo whose work spans documentary photography and fine-art photography. Her practice has been described as focusing on social, political, existential and environmental issues, and she is known for projects including Exit Wonderland, Winter Solstice, White Is Not a Color, No Man's Land and Gilded Lilies.

Career Poppe came to wider international attention through projects that combine documentary concerns with constructed or stylized imagery. Her series Exit Wonderland, made during a road trip from New Mexico to California, was selected in the 2016 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards. LensCulture presented the work as politically charged and dystopian, while other coverage framed its American landscapes as surreal, dreamlike and cinematic.

Poppe's 2017 series Winter Solstice was a finalist in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards. LensCulture described the work as rooted in Norway's winter darkness while also connecting it to dependence on fossil fuels and wider environmental anxiety. Coverage of the award in Journalisten described it as Norwegian photography's highest distinction and presented Poppe as a photographer whose work had already received substantial recognition abroad.

One of Poppe's best-known later projects is Gilded Lilies, a series about the environmental cost of the global cut-flower industry. Sources on the work describe it as staging shop-bought flowers against landscape imagery from environmentally vulnerable places and as reworking still life and portrait traditions in order to connect floral beauty with climate change, consumerism and artificial perfection.

In 2025, Poppe was included in the Royal Photographic Society's 166th International Photography Exhibition, shown at Saatchi Gallery in London. Coverage in Time Out singled out her botanical photographs among the notable works in the exhibition.

Themes and style Published coverage presents Poppe as a photographer whose work moves between documentary concerns and deliberately constructed or manipulated imagery. Journalisten described her as politically engaged and suggested that she uses visual appeal strategically, drawing viewers into images that carry a social or political message rather than functioning as pure decoration. Fotografisk Tidskrift featured her on the cover of issue 3/2025 and published a portfolio centred on flowers and plants.

Awards and exhibitions Poppe's work has been recognised by the Sony World Photography Awards, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards, LensCulture Street Photography Awards, LensCulture Critics' Choice Awards and Fotografiprisen. She grew up in Norway and Portugal and is the sister of the film director Erik Poppe.