Thea Segall

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Thea Segall
Born	13 May 1929 Burdujeni, Suceava County, Romania
Died	25 October 2009 Caracas, Venezuela
Citizenship	Venezuelan
Occupation	Photographer
Awards	National Photography Award of Venezuela (2003)

Thea Segall Rubin (13 May 1929 – 25 October 2009) was a Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela from 1958 until her death. She was winner of the 2003 National Photography Award of Venezuela, editor of numerous publications and director of her own photographic studio. Through her photographic work she covered aspects such as ethnographic registry, rural culture, religious architecture, portraits and institutional photography.^[1]

Education

Segall had two sisters, Miora and Natasa. Her parents were Andrés Segall and Golda Rubin. From 1936 and 1947 she received her primary education, entering the Notre Dame de Sion school of nuns at the age of ten and then moving to a private French school where she ended her education. She lived through difficult moments during World War II, and her life was restricted between Burdujeni and Bucharest. At the end of this stage she aspired to study architecture, but at that time the students had to wait for a long time to enter university. When she was finally admitted for the School of Architecture she was already a photographer. In 1947 Segall started self-education in photographic theory to teach and take a course at the Photography Center of the School of Journalism with Austrian photographer and teacher Otto Grossar, with whom she later worked as his assistant.^[1]

Career

She same year her parents migrated to Israel with her younger sister Natasa.^[