Anya Teixeira

Anya Teixeira (1913 – 1992)[1] was a Russian-born British street photographer and photojournalist.

Her work is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

[2] Teixeira's family escaped the Russian Revolution in 1917, through a rescue mounted by her uncle Morris Gest, a New York City impresario.

The family settled in Berlin in 1924 so as to be near at hand for the expected overthrow of the Bolshevik regime.

Three years later she co-founded the Creative Photo Group[1] in London which drew approval from the historians Helmut and Alison Gernsheim in their book A Concise History of Photography.