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Helga Paris

Although Helga Paris, born 1938 in Pomerania, was self-taught and more interested in amateur photography than in so-called fine art photography, a friend suggested she work professionally after he saw a picture she had taken of her two kids. In 1967, she followed his advice. She had finished her degree in fashion design in East Berlin right before the Berlin Wall

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