Stories from Sweden: Lina Scheynius and Saskia Vogel

Time and date

Saturday 12 July 2025

5:00 pm

Location

Bantry Library

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In Diary of an Ending, internationally renowned Swedish 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 Lina’s diary – written by her in Swedish and translated by Saskia Vogel – with reflective essays written by Lina in English five years on, exploring ideas about art and photography, sex and passion, the act of diary-making, destructive relationships, motherhood and home. We are joined by both Lina and her translator Saskia.

Admission: Free

Diary of an Ending is a profoundly personal work which captures the raw emotions that emerge in the aftermath of a breakup. It’s written with the same unashamed and unfiltered honesty that defines her photography, with real immediacy and vulnerability, and has its own distinctive visual and emotional language.

 

Interspersed with black-and-white photographs, and written with the same unashamed and unfiltered honesty that defines Lina’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.

 

This event is supported by the Swedish Arts Council in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden, UK as part of their Stories From Sweden programme

 

    Lina Scheynius jacket

Writers

Lina Scheynius

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...

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Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel is a writer and translator from Swedish and German into English. She was awarded a Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature and was a finalist for the PEN...

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