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It was in 1963, in Munich, and there were witnesses. No, Anna Peisl was not born with a camera. That was not really what her parents had in mind. Instead they saw themselves with a doctor in the family. But why did it not happen?

Did it perhaps have something to do with the camera that Anna Peisl started using as a child? Since then she has not stopped clicking and shooting. After passing her final secondary school examinations, she worked as an assistant to several photographers and from 1987 to 1989 she had two intensive years working in photojournalism. Important years that sharpened her eye for anything extraordinary in everyday life; its cracks and hardly perceptible misalignments. In the course of this fine adjustment, people moved more and more into Anna’s focal point. And so from 1993 to 1999, she studied psychology in order to understand the species better – just on the side – because her career and calling have always been her work behind the camera. In 1999 she received the Prinz Luitpold Award for her project, ‘Scotty, Madonna and the others’. Further projects and exhibitions followed. At the same time, she was shooting photographs for AOK, Focus, Brigitte, Disney, Siemens, Eltern, Hess Natur and advertising agencies, such as Bozell+Kamstra, DDB Needham, Publicis, Heye+Partner, Young+Rubicam, and many others. And that is what she is still doing today.

Anna Peisl lives in Munich, has her own studio, her own husband and a joint son since 1989.