Freya Najade is a photographer living and working in London and Hamburg.
In her work, Freya searches for unexpected beauty in the ordinary.
Freya’s work has been exhibited internationally and published widely e.g. in The Guardian, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung and the British Journal of Photography, among others.
Freya is the author of several monographs. Her latest series about the marshes in East London was released as book The Hackney Marshes by Hoxton Mini Press in October 2022. Previous books of her are Jazorina (Kehrer Verlag, 2016) and Along the Hackney Canal (Hoxton Mini Press, 2016). The latter received the Best in Book Award by Creative Review.
Freya splits her time working on long-term personal projects and on commissions for clients such as Google, Burberry, Bloomberg, Deutsche Bahn and The Photographer’s Gallery.
Freya holds a master’s degree with distinction in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from London College of Communication (University of the Arts London).
