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Guinevere Edith van Seenus (born 1976) is an American model, photographer and jewelry designer. As a photographer, van Seenus shoots with a Leica M6, Leica Minilux, large-format 4x5, 600SE Polaroid, Twin-Lens Rolleiflex as well as a Polaroid SX-70. Her work, sometimes self-portraits, has been described as ethereal. She has shot a cover story for Purpose and Perspective featuring model Kirsten Owen, and has shot for Colville and Self-Service magazine. She has attended the Met Gala with Rodarte, Marni and Vogue.

Special projects include a custom book featuring van Seenus and Saskia de Brauw for Charlotte Dauphin's jewelry creations, and many others. Van Seenus's image hung from the front of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the Met Gala. That year's theme was Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between. Her image also hung from the outside of the Louvre Museum for a Yohji Yamamoto exhibit in collaboration with A Magazine. Books include a collaboration with Rodarte, Catherine Opie and Alec Soth, as well as books by Yelena Yemchuk, Drew Jarrett, Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, and others. The subject of many photography books, she has appeared in major publications, including the book, Amber, Guinevere and Kate featuring Amber Valetta and Kate Moss by Craig McDean. She was also featured in Garden of Earthly Delights by Tim Walker. Van Seenus was one of two models to appear more than once in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s show, Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography. She was also included the “Model as Muse” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pat McGrath LABS, founded by the legendary British make-up artist, named a shade of lipstick after her. Designer Marc Jacobs also named a bag after van Seenus called the Guinevere Satchel.

Van Seenus is an ardent supporter of animal rescues and service animal rights. In 2018, she hosted the Humane society of New York's Fifth Fine Art Photography Benefit Auction in partnership with Aperture Foundation. The exhibit included works by Edward Steichen, Elliott Erwitt, Vincent van de Wijngard, William Wegman, Bruce Davidson, and many others. Van Seenus appears with her three-legged (tripod) rescue dog Ashley in a 2017 Banana Republic campaign, and also in a 2017 profile of the model that was published in the Sunday magazine section of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

As of September 2019, van Seenus is ranked as an “Industry Icon” on models.com. She is represented by DNA Model Management in New York,