So, who is Lena Modigh – where are you based?
At the age of nineteen I fortunately managed to avoid a career in
Stockholm banking and instead fled my idealic Swedish homeland for
New Zealand. Soon after I set my sights on New York, where I resided
for a few years, working in the film industry. I became more and more
fascinated with still image so decided to study photography in London,
where I settled and after a few years assisting started shooting my own
work.
Can you remember the first image you ever took?
It must have been a photograph of a big rock in the backyard of my
Elementary School. The project was to photograph something and then
choose the music for that picture. Very exciting!