Alberto Schommer

He was introduced to the skill of photography from his father, a photographer from Vitoria who immigrated from Germany, Alberto Schommer Koch [es],[1] where he opened a studio during the 1940s.

Later, Schommer was academically trained in the field of this art in the German city of Cologne and Paris.

The Spanish government awarded him the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2008 and the National Prize of Photography in 2013.

He died on September 10, 2015, in San Sebastián, at 87 years of age due to respiratory problems caused by cancer.

His peculiar way of approaching the portrait had a great impact in the seventies and eighties, and his photographs will become a visual chronicle of the Transition.