Lina Scheynius

The work of Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius (born 1981) captures quiet moments of intimacy and hidden beauty, as if ripped from the pages of her diary. Raw sexuality and naked bodies populate her photographs, which often feature her close friends and lovers, and herself, as models.
In this latest project, Scheynius works with analog photography, double-exposing the film—first with images of centuries-old statues, then with her own nude body—using self-portraiture as a bridge across millennia. Both subtle and raw, Scheynius offers here a groundbreaking photobook for the 21st century.

Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius (born 1981) has spent nearly two decades relentlessly recording the scenes of her life with her film camera. Working in both color and black and white, Scheynius compiles nude self-portraiture with intimate snapshots of family, friends and lovers. The result is a chronological and deeply personal rendering of the artist’s life. Taken between 1991 and 2018, the photographs also offer an unprecedented insight into the life of a 21st-century woman, from the recklessness of young love to the wonder of motherhood. Between 2007 and 2019, Lina Scheynius organized her expansive photographic archive into 11 self-published books which have received international acclaim. Available together in its entirety for the first time as a box set, this comprehensive collection offers a rare sensitivity and intensity against the backdrop of an increasingly digitized and impersonal contemporary world.