About the Author

Heidi Specker, born 1962, lives and works since 1992 in Berlin. 1996 she received the European Photography Award and 2005 the Deutscher Fotopreis. Frieze art magazin London noted in 2006: Her abstraction is not pure form, but one possible way to organize a view of an urban landscape. If she photographs nature or human bodies, they nevertheless seem organically made, like paintings or collages, rather than artificially manipulated.