Diary of an Ending

Author(s): Scheynius, Lina,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 09/07/2025,
Pagination: Black-and-white photographs; 25 Illustrations,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Prototype Publishing Ltd.,
Published By: Prototype Publishing Ltd.,
Book Classification: Sweden,
Dimensions: 134 x 211 x 22
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781913513757

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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.