Jessica Backhaus

(Cuxhaven, Germany, 1970 - )

Raspberry Interior

2004

Chromogenic print

24 x 20 in. (61.0 x 50.8 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell

2025.7.1

Copyright of the artist

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Raspberry Interior was part of Jessica Backhaus’s first photobook, Jesus and the Cherries, in which the artist chronicled rural life in the Polish province of Pomorskie. The images that she produced there suggest that she struck up strong relationships with her subjects, who invited her to take their portraits and to document their houses and apartments. Backhaus found beautiful moments of everyday life, but also a sense of things changing and even slipping away.