BERKO PHOTO

Berko finishes studies in philosophy. Dedicates himself exclusively to photography - reportage, abstraction, and the female form. Makes short, abstract and documentary films... Documentary film director for the British Army. With attention to both abstraction and humanism, Berko captures street scenes and unusual details from Madras to Kashmir to Sikkim. Opens Berko Studio with focus on portraiture. Photographs leaders of the Indian Independence movement and government... Berko moved to Germany in 1921. At twelve, he was adopted by foster parents in Berlin. Their home was infused with the progressive, modernist ideals of the Bauhaus. Berko spent his adolescence surrounded by great artists such as László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Gropius, and Marcel Breuer. They encouraged him to take up photography and inspired his compositional instinct for spare geometric combinations of form and tonal values. While a high school student in Frankfurt, Berko met his future wife, Mirte.

Primary location: Aspen United States