Wolfgang Suschitzky

We are delighted to present our Room with a View featuring the work of celebrated photographer, cinematographer and humanist Wolfgang Suschitzky (Austrian, 1912–2016). His career spans more than 70 years. He created a legacy of socially engaged photography and film work known for its integrity and compassion, having worked on over a hundred documentary, feature, and commercial films. His photographs are held in collections worldwide. Never forcing an image but, rather, waiting patiently for an opportunity for the picture to present itself. Suschitzky liked to think of himself as a photographer of "all things that are photographable," joking that his favorite photographic genres are children and animals "because they don't complain."

His photographs are proof of the respect and compassion with which he treated each new subject.

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Wolfgang Suschitzky

Charing Cross Road from No. 84, (Marks & Co.), 1937

“Composition is not a matter of rules, it's a matter of taste.”

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky

This is the most autobiographical photograph I have ever collected. I was born in the East End of London into a very modest background to say the least. My parents had both left school at 13 years old. I always dreamed that outside our tiny apartment there was a bigger world to explore. Every Saturday morning I used to take myself on the tube “Up West” to Central London and Charing Cross Road depicted here where there were rows and rows of second hand bookstores where, for literally pennies, I could find second hand books to feed my curiosity plus a second hand jazz record store called Dobells where I could listen to jazz records for hours that I could not afford to buy. This was my weekly ritual and Charing Cross Road became my cultural nirvana. Flash forward, I see this image about thirty years ago and wham that was it and I met its creator - Wolf Suschitzky. On every trip back to London I would visit Wolf in his little appartment. He was a gentleman from the “old Middle European School." We had our own special ritual. He would brew me the greatest Viennese coffee and there would always be the most delicious apple strudel to accompany it. And then we would talk for hours and look through his archives. I always discovered something new and special there. I thought he was such a truly great and under-appreciated photographer and promoting his work became my “Mission,” to secure him the recognition I felt he deserved. It still is...He passed away at 104 years old and to be honest there is not a day I don’t think about him as I live surrounded by his work.

~ Peter Fetterman

Read a recent feature from Black & White Magazine

by Dean Brierly

"Embodied within this photographic tone poem is a culturally revealing and emotionally resonant sense of place and lived lives. Through a masterful control of light, film, chemistry and paper, coupled with a socially perceptive and empathetic vision, its maker has elevated and made significant a seemingly mundane tableau unfolding on the streets of England’s capital on a gray day in 1937."

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Wolfgang Suschitzky: Man with a Camera