[2][3][Notes 1] Her parents were German-born, naturalized Dutch citizens and operated a coffee plantation in Kediri.

Kurkdjian had died by the time Weissenborn arrived and the studio,[11] which employed thirty photographers,[3] was managed by an Englishman, GP Lewis.

In 1917, she moved to Garut in West Java[4] and managed a photographic studio GAH Lux[3] in the Garoetsche Apotheek en Handelsvereeniging Company, a pharmacy owned by Denis G. Mulder.

[13] Weissenborn traveled throughout the East Indies, and particularly worked in Bali, trying to capture the exotic nature of the islands, while at the same time, retaining the dignity of locals she photographed.

Ironically, her images were at times appropriated and used in prurient manners, such as a photograph of two women on a road carrying water, one who has a pot on her head, which was used for a French novel[4] titled L'Île des seins nus (Island of Bare Breasts).

These were featured in such magazines as Inter-Ocean, Sluyter’s Monthly and Tropical Netherlands, which marketed a more civilized Bali to international tourists.

[17] In 1956, the Indonesian government repudiated the remaining terms of the Hague Round Table Conference[18] forcing Weissenborn and Wijnmalen to return to Holland.

[1] The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) has digitized and made some of her works available in an on-line collection.