'Frida Forever' is the first monograph by the Danish artist Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø. The book explores life with chronic illness and paraplegia contrasted with the tender freedom of youth. During Frida’s many hospital stays, she has photographed herself, the hospital space, and her surroundings. The book portrays her extended periods in the hospital and the aftermath of over a hundred operations, along with various medical and radiation treatments. The book intertwines photographic self-portraits and staged compositions with energetic snapshots in an original work that uses a raw yet playful photographic style to tell a powerful, personal, and vulnerable story.
Danish / English
