Andreas Herzau, one of Germany's most important documentary photographers, has died after a long illness. Herzau accompanied Chancellor Merkel for ten years, documenting her unusual everyday life.
He became known to a specialist audience through his worldwide reportage work for German magazines and newspapers. In 2003, Herzau published a photography volume entitled “New York,” which brought together images from the metropolis before and after the attack on September 11, 2001. In 1997 he and colleagues organized a volume entitled »Escape 50 million people without a home"