Ingeborg Tyssen (1945–2002) was born in the Netherlands and arrived in Australia in 1957. She originally trained and worked as a nurse. Her interest in photography developed in the early 1970s while documenting her overseas travels. She studied photography under John Williams, who became her husband, and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Photography at Sydney College of the Arts in 1982. She was a co-founder with Paul Cox, Rod McNicol and John Williams of the Photographer’s Gallery in South Yarra in 1975. Tyssen exhibited her work nationally and internationally and combined her practice with teaching photography. Tyssen was killed when hit by a motorbike while visiting the Netherlands in 2002.

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