Linda Forsell

Linda Forsell is a freelancing photojournalist based in Stockholm working with a combination of shorter assignments and longer projects. She has been published in for example Vice Magazine, the New Yorkers photo booth, la Repubblica and most major Scandinavian publications. 

For the past four years she has worked extensively on women’s issues in the world. Between 2010 and 2012 she traveled to ten countries, documenting violence against women in the world in the project Cause of Death: Woman. In the beginning of 2012 the result was launched at www.causeofdeathwoman.com and in 2013 it was awarded the special recognition in the Swedish picture of the year. Her project, Life’s a blast, from Israel and Palestine, became a book in 2012, at the same time as it was exhibited in Stockholm, Sweden. The series was one of the finalists of Magnum Expression Award in 2010, and it was shown at the Noorderlicht photo festival in 2009.
Linda also received recognition from the Swedish Arts Foundation, the Lead Awards, Flash Magenta Award and a nomination to the Magnum Emergency Fund among others. And her work has been exhibited internationally in for example Beijing, Sweden, London, Holland and the US.