Candida Hofer
Candida Höfer (Germany, 1944) is a German photographer renowned for her large-scale color images of empty interiors. Her work focuses on symmetry, the architecture's sense of scale, and proportion. Höfer studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1973 to 1982, first in film with the Danish filmmaker Ole John, then in photography with Bernd and Hilla Becher.

What is the Dusseldorf school of photography?
The Düsseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf during the 1970s. This group was known for its devotion to the black-and-white industrial images characteristic of the German tradition known as New Objectivity. The photographers focused on precise, methodical documentation of industrial structures, often using a detached and objective approach.