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9 stunning photos of millennials with everything they own

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Can you fit everything you own into one photo? These millennials can. Courtesy Sannah Kvist
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  • Sannah Kvist photographs millennials with all of their possessions.
  • She focuses on a generation of Swedish students that are less wealthy than their parents.
  • You can learn a lot about someone from what they own.


Millennials have been called "nightmare employees" and are credited with "killing" countless industries. This photo series shows their softer, more vulnerable side.

Swedish photographer Sannah Kvist asks millennials to pile everything they own into a corner of their room and pose for a portrait. The resulting images provide revealing glimpses into who they are and how their generation lives.

Here are nine photos from her series, "All I Own."

Sannah Kvist is an artist and photographer based in Sweden.

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She's also a train driver. Courtesy Sannah Kvist

For her series "All I Own," she photographs millennials with all of their possessions.

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Her studio is the subject's living space. Courtesy Sannah Kvist

Her subjects are Swedish students born in the eighties, members of a generation that's less affluent than their parents.

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Everything they own fits into a corner of their room. Courtesy Sannah Kvist

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They move frequently between apartments and keep their possessions to a minimum.

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It makes moving easier. Courtesy Sannah Kvist

For her portraits, Kvist asks them to pile everything they own into a backdrop of organized chaos.

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Precarious. Courtesy Sannah Kvist

You can tell a lot about someone based on what they collect and keep around them.

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Musical instruments make frequent appearances in her photos. Courtesy Sannah Kvist

Some of Kvist's subjects indicate clear interests based on the contents of their lives.

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Books and music make neat piles. Courtesy Sannah Kvist

Others have a little bit of everything.

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An eclectic collection. Courtesy Sannah Kvist

Her intimate photos speak to the transience and cautious independence of emerging adulthood.

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Adulting. Courtesy Sannah Kvist
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Talia Lakritz
Talia Lakritz
Talia Lakritz is a Life correspondent at Business Insider covering politics and power through a visual storytelling lens. She has reported from the White House as well as military installations, mansions, and museums across the country, bringing readers inside fascinating places through immersive features.Previously, she wrote for The New York Jewish Week and SciShow Space.Talia holds a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Barnard College of Columbia University and ordination as an interfaith minister from One Spirit Learning Alliance. She hopes to one day visit all 50 states and all 14 public presidential libraries.Politics and power:Visual features:Human interest: