Diary of an Ending

In Diary of an Ending, internationally renowned photographer Lina Scheynius expands her artistic vision to prose, offering an unflinching and intimate exploration of heartbreak and self-recovery.Blurring the boundaries between diary and essay, Diary of an Ending explores the break-up of a relationship, combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary – written in Swedish and translated by Saskia Vogel – with reflective essays written in English five years on, exploring ideas about art and photography, sex and passion, the act of diary-making, destructive relationships, motherhood and home.Interspersed with black-and-white photographs, and written with the same unashamed and unfiltered honesty that defines Scheynius’s photography, Diary of an Ending is an intimate hybrid of memoir and autofiction, a meditation on the passage of time and the transformative power of creativity.

Lina Scheynius is a photographer known for her distinct, diaristic style of image-making. Her photography captures quiet moments of intimacy and hidden beauty, from nudes to still-lifes and intimate self portraits. At times luminous, then hazy – always intense and thought-provoking – her aesthetics convey the authenticity of sensual experience, never shying away from vulnerability. Scheynius's work has been showcased in solo exhibitions in Zurich, Tokyo, Oslo, Berlin and London, and her works have featured in group exhibitions at prominent galleries including House of Photography, Hamburg, Centre de la photographie, Geneva, Somerset House, London, and the Foam Museum, Amsterdam. Scheynius used to write a popular weekly photography column for Zeit magazine in Germany, has published nineteen photobooks and has a wide social media following, where she first shares most of her photographs.