Candida Höfer is a German artist working with photography.
From 1973 to 1982 Candida Höfer had studied at the Art Academy Düsseldorf first studying Film with Ole John, before joining Bernd Becher's first Photography class. Also at Düsseldorf, in 1975, she had her first solo gallery exhibition at Konrad Fischer Gallery.
Her early work Candida Höfer addresses the visual changes in German society brought about by migrant workers from Turkey. This subject raised her interest in the impact of the built environment on people. She turned to public and semi-public spaces ranging from waiting rooms at railway stations, and such diverse spaces as spas, libraries, museums, zoological gardens, banks, opera houses, and theatres, some of them wellknown spectacular cultural icons, others everyday architecture that we may pass without noticing. She also realized that paradoxically the impacts of architecture are most intensely present when people are not in the image.