After graduating from the Kolner Werkschulen (Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts), Candida Hofer began her career behind the lens as a portrait photographer for news publications. Hofer honed her skills under the direction of prize winning photographers, the late Bernd and Hilla Becher, who also instructed her contemporaries, including Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth. Candida Hofer employs a style of snapping color photographs of empty More