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Zwehl has developed a style of photography focused upon on exact conditions while allowing for the myriad of expressions in the unexpected flash.
Bettina von Zwehl
German artist
Bettina von Zwehl (born [1]) is a German artist who lives and works in London. She has centred her artistic practice on photography, installation and archival exploration evolving through artist-residencies in museums.
Her work explores representations of the human condition and human concerns through an observational approach combined with a distinctive use of the profile view and silhouette that continues to underpin her practice.[2]
Career
Von Zwehl was born in Munich and studied in London, receiving a BA in Photography from the London College of Printing and an MA in Fine Art Photography from the Royal College of Art, London.[3]
She began making portraits as a student at the Royal College of Art, using a 19th-century methodology that she encountered as a photographer's assistant in Rome, working on 10in ×8in (mm ×mm) film with a large-plate camera.[4] Most of her work has been in