Louise Enhörning is a Swedish artist and photographer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied Art History at Uppsala University and completely courses in art and philosophy at Umeå University, Stockholm School Of Art and the University of Arts, Crafts and Design. After school at 19, she began working at the photography studio YFO as a lighting assistant and quickly rose to become the studio manager within her first year. After two years at YFO, she got headhunted to do an apprenticeship as photo assistant to learn the craft of fine art photography and printing. During this tenure she assisted many of Sweden’s most famous photographers.
In 2005 Enhörning left Stockholm for Paris, where she resided until 2016. While there, she began working with the prolific platform, Tiny Vices, working with photographers like Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow in NYC. It was also during this period at Tiny Vices that Enhörning became internationally recognised, participating in a number of exhibitions around the world and was even featured in Rizzoli’s book Photography of the Moment, alongside other important photographers of her generation as Ryan McGinley, Wolgang Tillmans and Dash Snow. Coming from a multi-generational family of artists meant that Louise was lucky enough to begin her practice early. She possesses a deep understanding of her craft which she credits to the early education and support she received from her parents as wellher access to materials – her father built her first dark room while her mother taught her the theory of colors.
In her photographs, Louise reflects the social mechanisms of our time using her own experience as a point of departure. Her sensitive exploration of intimacy involves both an emotional and a physical understanding of her subjects. She has worked on assignments from brands and magazines such as Agnès B, Dazed and Confused, Hermès, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. And has been featured in fine art publications including Agape (Art and Theory publishing), Swedish Girls – A Tribute (Argent Books), SHOOT – Photography of the Moment (Rizzoli Publications), and The Vice Photo Book.
Enhörning has had solo exhibitions at Loyal Gallery and the Saatchi Office in Stockholm, at OFR Gallery in Paris, has appeared in a number of group exhibitions around the world and has public installations in Malmö, Uppsala and Stockholm.
Louise works today with LOYAL Gallery, Stockholm and is a teacher of photography at Beckmans School of Design.