About the artist:

Karin Szekessy was born on April 17, 1939, in Essen, Niedersachsen, Germany. She studied photojournalism in Munich from 1957 to 1959. Szekessy went freelance in 1966 and established her own studio in 1974. She photographed for the German magazine Kristall in 1962-1966 and taught fashion photography at the Hamburg Arts School from 1967 to 1970. Szekessy has been a freelance photographer since 1970. Originally working in black-and-white, she later revived the old heliographic printing process. She had also photographed a portrait series of fellow artists entitled Zeitgenossen (Contemporaries; 1962-1967) and taught fashion photography at the Hamburg Werkkunstschule (1967-1969). She has photographed Mediterranean landscapes, and in 1984-1987 shot covers for a series of detective novels published by Ullstein.