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Upon the completion of studies in science and sociology at secondary school, Kruse began her career as a fashion model in 1992, living first in Milan, then Paris, and New York. In 1995 she bought a Mamiya camera and began the first of her illustrated journals or "Reisebuchs", a series of mixed media notebooks. They are composed of collages, drawings, writings in several languages, and photographic self-portraits chronicling her world travels. Almost incidentally, the "Reisebuchs" came to the attention of several magazine art directors in which she appeard as a model and she was approached to work as a photographer on fashion assignments. From this, her work has been published in Interview, Vogue, I.-D., Mixte, Harper's Bazaar, and numerous other publications. As an artist, working primarily in mixed media and photography, she has shown in New York (her most recent solo show at the Steven Kasher Gallery), London, Paris, Berlin and Hamburg. In 2005, she received an award from GLAAD for "Best Emerging Artist in Photography". |