World citizen: Lisl Steiner

Today I knew a fascinating person: Lisl Steiner. She was born in Vienna but had to emigrate with her parents to Argentina beginnings of the second world war. After studying art and working in the argentinian film industry she started to work as a photojournalist. In a speech today at the GLVA (Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt) in Vienna she explaind that there are two elements that are important when you're working as a photographer: humor and curiosity. For her it's important to talk with young people about photography, her work, her passion - to stay young. The thing that impressed me most was that she had an i-phone from Apple. That's not really strange, but if you know that she's nearly 81 it's really crazy, but perhaps it's normal if you're living in New York.

Lisl Steiner took pictures of a lot of famous people: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Pablo Neruda, Fidel Castro, Jorge Luis Borges, Henry Kissinger, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, etc.

Jorge Luis Borges, photo from www.lislsteiner.com