Ingrid Deuss is very proud to present an exhibition of work by the acclaimed photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912).

​For 103 An oeuvre that includes images of everyday scenes and street scenes as well as portraits and travel photos. His photographs are part of collections around the world and have been exhibited in the National Gallery, the Austrian Cultural Forum in London and The Photographer's Gallery, among others.

Although best known for his documentary photographs of the West End of London in the 1930s and 1940s, throughout his 70-year career he has photographed many subjects, all with the same genuine affection.

From the late 1930s he also worked as a cinematographer for documentaries and feature films.

Wolfgang Suschitzky was born in Vienna in 1912 into a socialist, non-religious Jewish family. He studied at the Austrian State School of Photography. Like many of his contemporaries, he was deeply influenced by the Foto-Auge exhibition of 1929. He arrived in London via Amsterdam in 1935, fleeing Nazi persecution. Suschitzky trained as a photographer in his hometown of Vienna and was already skilled in both studio portraits and street photography. The London he found himself in was a city of increasing unemployment and social unrest and Suschitzky was able to capture both the poverty and the wealth that coexisted with his photographs. Suschitzky remained in London throughout the war, working as an assistant cameraman for acclaimed documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha, while at first working with his sister, the photographer Edith TudorHart lived in Brixton before settling in the Hampstead Garden Suburb with his new wife and family in 1941.

His photographs of the 1930s and 1940s are imbued with tenderness and an interest in the individual. His immigrant status is reflected in his fascination with the particularities of London, while his socialist upbringing is reflected in his focus on the city's poor working people. Brigitte May describes Wolf's character as follows: "Although he lived in London for over half a century, he has an undeniable wonderful old Viennese charm, which shows in his friendliness and warmth when you meet him. There is his political commitment, his interest in the topicality, his attention to the needs of others and his fight against social injustice, his constant interest in innovation and progress, his openness and sincerity, his subtle sense of humor and his engaging personality. "