Obituary: Ulli Steltzer, photographer with a social conscience

Ulli Steltzer spent the Second World War hiding from the Nazis in Germany because her father was Jewish.
“She went and worked for the church in an old people’s home in Potsdam,” relates her son Michael. “The authorities did not know where she was.”
The experience gave her a strong affinity for the oppressed. After moving to the United States and becoming a photographer, she documented the lives of black people in the American south during the Civil Rights era. After