Angela Strassheim
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Angela Strassheim (born 1969) is an American photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York and Jerusalem.[1] Prior to receiving her MFA from Yale in 2003, Strassheim worked as a certified forensic photographer. In this capacity she produced crime scene, evidence, and surveillance photography in Miami. Later, having moved to New York, she began to photograph autopsies as well.[2]
A native of Bloomfield, Iowa, Strassheim was born into a family of fundamentalist born-again Christians[3][4] and later during her childhood, lived in Minnetonka, Minnesota.[5] A 1995 graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design,[6] from which she received her BFA, she possesses a Forensic & Biomedical Photography Certification from the Metro-Dade County Forensic Imaging Bureau in Miami, and received an MFA from Yale University.[7] She has taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.[5]
