Sibylle Bergemann

Sibylle Bergemann was a German photographer who co-founded the Ostkreuz agency in 1990. She is remembered for documenting developments in East Berlin during the Communist era and for her international assignments for Stern and later for Geo. She started her career as a fashion and portrait photographer for the magazine Sibylle, where she developed her own style of capturing people as they appeared in real life. She later moved on to photograph her own country and the rest of the world, using both black and white and color film. She also worked on artistic projects such as Polaroids, The Monument, and Das Helmholtz-Zentrum. She received recognition for her work when she became a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin in 1994. She died of cancer in 2010 at the age of 69. Her photographs are held in several museums and galleries, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Kicken Gallery in Berlin. She is regarded as one of Germany's best-known photographers.