carboncollective™: Lina Scheynius
carboncollective™ is an ongoing series in which we are showcasing some of the more interesting up and coming photographers from Scandinavia. Over the last year, we've selected some of the best new photographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden in order to show you a selection of their work. All of the photographers we've chosen are proponents of the New Nordic Photography movement and demonstrate a strong sense of Scandinavian Æsthetics.
Our latest photographer in the series is Lina Scheynius (born 1981) from Sweden. Originally from the small Swedish town of Vänersborg, Lina was brought up in Trollhättan in the southwest of the country. As well as being home to Saab Auto and Volvo Aero, these days Trollhättan is also home to the Swedish film industry and fast becoming known as Trollywood (Fucking Åmål, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville are just a few of the films to have been shot there).
Despite having only shown her work for the last two years, Lina has already chalked up an impressive list of exhibitions, having been included in a group show in London, two in Dublin and one in Lund, Sweden. 2008 is shaping up to be an even busier year for Lina, with a further four shows including one in Barcelona, one in Paris and two in New York.
We love the brooding sense of intimacy and subtle play of light in Lina’s photography together with the way she injects mystery into everyday moments. See for yourself by taking a look at a selection of her work below and in the new carboncollective™ IX gallery. Remember to read the profiles of the other photographers in the carboncollective™ series and to view our galleries of their work:
Having left Sweden at the age of 19, Lina initially moved to London to concentrate on a modeling career but has subsequently traveled widely and is currently living and working in Paris. Following an education biased towards science and mathematics, Lina discovered her inner creativity, firstly through an obsessive passion for drawing and then by an intense love of photography.
lifeiscarbon® are certainly not the first people to fall for Lina’s photography, a number of magazine publishers have discovered her artistic talent and her work has been already been profiled in Exit, Pig, Dazed and Confused, Ikidebir from Turkey and 0086 from China.
Seemingly not content with the current level of exposure of her work, Lina is currently working on two book projects. The first is a monograph together with a London book publisher whilst the second is a self-published book of Polaroids. We love Lina’s idea for the Polaroid book and applaud her ambition to produce small and affordable paperback art books costing no more than 10 Euro each. We're looking forward to seeing her idea come to fruition when her first book is published sometime in late Spring.
Take a look at a selection of Lina Scheynius’ photographs in the carboncollective™ IX gallery.
Lina Scheynius on Flickr
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