The photographer takes us through her latest publication, Touching: a dreamy, diaristic study of the physical form
Great photographs inevitably involve an element of serendipity; of talent and hard work combining with aesthetic luck to create moments of magic. “I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance,” Sally Mann wrote of her creative process. For her latest series,handed the reins over to that angel of chance, making fate a determining element of her method.
“I am not completely unfamiliar with giving up control as I always shoot with film, and I have shot self portraits with a tripod for many years, so I know the feeling of not knowing what the image will look like when the shutter goes off,” Scheynius says. “But this is so much more of an accident than that. In the end I facilitated them happening, but chance played such a big part in it too.
“I get a certain kick out of doing it, almost a high sometimes. It’s like dancing,” she offers on why she feels compelled to keep taking self-portraits despite the conflicting emotions. “Sharing and creating are very different things though, and why I feel the need to keep sharing I am not sure of, and sometimes I waver here.” But ultimately, she says, the feedback she receives from people confirms the importance of sharing vulnerability.
Where she shares this vulnerability, however, has shifted over the years. Having started out her photography career on sites like Tumblr and Flickr – where her work swiftly attracted a large fan base – she has recently grown disillusioned with social media. She finds Instagram’s commercialisation and censorship of art, as well as its, particularly troubling. It’s one of the reasons she turned her gaze back centuries and found herself drawn to classical art and ancient sculpture.
“For me personally, I have hit a sort of wall with social media and I’m trying to rethink how and why I use it,” she says. “I do feel in my community that there is a strong urge to find an alternative. I recently started a substack account where I share unseen work with a small audience and that feels really right for me at the moment.”
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