1989: freelance graduate photographer, married, 2 daughters; 1990 foundation of the photo agency “transit Leipzig”, since then working as a photographer for journals and magazines, trade union organisations, foundations, commercial enterprises, advertising agencies and travel book publishers
Christiane Eisler
I was always a freelancer. That had to do with the fact that I was a somewhat unpopular student in 1983 because I dealt with certain topics – with punks and the Jugendwerkhof. Nobody wanted to place me. At the HGB, it was so common at the time that students, the graduates, always got job offers from industrial companies or cultural institutions, where they then worked as photographers. And nobody really wanted me because I was somehow a bit opportunistic.
Read more: in Kritische Künstlerinnen”
The entire interview plus photo collection will be available in the Open Feminist Democracy Archive | OfemDA, which is currently being created. See here