Karin Walter

Dr Karin Walter is a scholar of photographic history with a doctorate. She studied art history, folklore and sociology in Würzburg and Vienna. Her professional positions included research work at the Museum of Communication in Hamburg and the Altona Museum, as well as directing the Küstenmuseum Wilhelmshaven. From 2008 onward, she worked as a curator of fine art and cultural history at the Focke Museum – Bremen State Museum of Art and Cultural History. Her publications address photographic history, postcards, everyday communication, traditional dress and the history of museum collections.