Background
Ingeborg Gerdes was born on July 20, 1938 in Merseburg, Germany. Daughter of Guenter and Gertrud Klein.
Ingeborg Gerdes was born on July 20, 1938 in Merseburg, Germany. Daughter of Guenter and Gertrud Klein.
Ingeborg Gerdes earned an Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970.
Ingeborg Gerdes has been a freelance photographer since 1970, and taught photography at the University of California Extension from 1976 to 1979, and at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1978.
Over the years Ingeborg Gerdes has explored a wide range of subjects. Making photographs corresponded with her passion for travel, which took her to Europe, Mexico and Asia. Her fascination with the American West began with a road trip to Nevada in 1982 and became a decade-long project.
Ingeborg Gerdes has shown her photographs in numerous one-person and group exhibitions, nationally and abroad.
Ingeborg Gerdes now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and spends her summers in Berlin, Germany.