Anya Teixeira

Anya Teixeira ( * 1913, † 1992 in London) was a British photographer and photojournalist Ukrainian origin.

Biography

Teixeira's family fled with the help of her living in New York uncle Morris Gest during the Russian Revolution of February 1917 to Berlin, where she lived from 1924. From Germany the family again fled from the Nazis in April 1939 and reached England. Although there refugees were allowed in principle only work as domestic servants or factory workers, she managed to obtain a work permit for the exercise of an office job; she worked in a number of uses as a secretary until she retired in 1975. With their earnings, they also supported the impoverished Maria Worobjowa in her artistic work.

Teixeira's interest in photography developed until 1960 by hobby vocation. Beginning of the 1960s, she co-founded the London Creative Photo Group, its recognition in the book A Concise History of Photography (London: Thames & Hudson, 1965), the photo historian Helmut and Alison Gernsheim found.

Exhibitions

• Photographic works, Congress Centrum Hamburg
• On Stage, Camden Arts Centre, London
• Dancing in the Streets, Camden Arts Centre, London
• World Press Photo, The Hague
• Photokina ( awarded the Crystal Obelisk ), Cologne
• Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
• Midland Art Centre, Birmingham
• The Midland Group, Nottingham
• British Council Travelling Exhibition (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
• Women 's Images of Men, ICA, London