Diana Scheunemann was born in Germany in 1975. When she was 15 she moved to Switzerland, where she attended Zurich University of the Arts. She has earned a reputation for images of unadorned authenticity, and intimate and sometimes provocative commercial and editorial photo campaigns for well-known brands and leading international magazines. Her photographs have been published in top titles including Vogue, Elle, Playboy, Arena, and GQ in Europe and the US.
Alongside this work, since 1999 she has been pursuing Behind My Face, a project documenting every day of her life in the form of a self-portrait. To date the project has resulted in four monographs: Ambisexual (2001), Diana Scheunemann (2005), Freedom In Flashes (2007) and Love American Skin (2013). Besides the book, Love American Skin features Diana Scheunemann’s first feature-length documentary film. She currently lives in New York, and is in regular demand as a fashion, advertising and editorial photographer.
Love American Skin is a series of impressive images recounting Diana Scheunemann’s journey through America and under the skin of her adopted country. It’s the skin of a nation presented as a landscape or surface over which her and our eyes can play – curiously, lustfully, tragically and lovingly. It’s the skin of a nation and a collective history told not as a single, big narrative, but as the stories of the people Diana Scheunemann meets on her travels through the US.
Diana Scheunemann took an eight-week road trip clockwise through 21 US states accompanied by her boyfriend, who along the way became her husband. Over the course of 60 days she photographed and interviewed 60 people she met in diners, on the sidewalk, or on their fro...