Anne-Katrin Purkiss

Who is Anne-Katrin Purkiss?

Anne-Katrin Purkiss is a photographer, born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1959 and moving to Britain in 1984 after graduating from University of Leipzig in 1983.

Her Sculptors project documented sculptors in their working environment and includes portraits of Elisabeth Frink, Kenneth Armitage, Andy Goldsworthy, Sir Anthony Caro and Lynn Chadwick.

A collection of her portraits of British scientists is held by the Royal Society and was shown in part in a display at the National Portrait Gallery, including portraits of Sir Alec Jeffreys, Lord Darzi, Sir Martin Evans, Sir Tim Hunt and Dame Louise Johnson.

Between 2008 and 2011 she compiled a photographic record of the restoration of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey; England's only gallery devoted to the work of a single artist. It houses sculpture and paintings by the Victorian George Frederic Watts.

Her early work includes a large number of photographs of her childhood and youth in the GDR.

She works primarily in black-and-white, using available light and Hasselblad.