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Petra Liebetanz (born November 10, 1968) is a German-American photographer noted for her people studies.

Biography

Liebetanz was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of a German IT engineer working for IBM and an art loving mother. She attended the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium in Kaarst where the family lived in the 1970s. Interested in photography from a young age, she started experimenting with photography at the Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York where the family moved in 1985. She studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
In 1997 Liebetanz married psychologist Horst Seele, who changed his name to Seele-Liebetanz to assume her name and with whom she has two sons.

Work

She moved to New York City in 1991, where she started working with photographers like Christopher Little, Peter Serling and even the late Rudi Molacek.

Liebetanz set up a studio in the Garment District in Manhattan at 29th Street and worked primarily on people photography in the affluent late 1990s. She became American citizen in 2004.

Since 2004 Liebetanz is often seen in Bremen, Germany, where she continues her extensive work as people and travel photographer. Her works appeared in publications and magazines in the United States, as well as in Austria “Wienerin” and several German newspapers.

She established her particular style marked by intimate, symbolic scenes, often in a natural environment.

Exhibitions

She had exhibitions in Berlin, Vienna and Santa Barbara. She also works in portraiture for editorial and more fantastical studies. Liebetanz is extremely fond of her hometown New York, and travels on a regular basis across the Atlantic.

External links

• Petra Liebetanz