(Budapest, Hungary, 1912 - Mexico City, Mexico, 2000)

Kati Horna was a photojournalist, surrealist photographer and educator.

In 1933, she studied photography in Paris with Jozsef Pécsi, where she made her first series The Flea Markets (1933-1934) and The Cafés of Paris (1934). In Barcelona, during the Spanish Civil War, she was commissioned to make foreign propaganda documentation. In 1938, she was editor-in-chief of the anarchist magazine Umbral. In 1939, she went into exile in Mexico and that same year published her series Lo que va del cesto in the magazine Todo. She became close friends with artists Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Eva Sulzer.

She worked from 1939 to 1945 in Nosotros magazine and from 1958 to 1967. In 1940 she participated in Manuel Avila Camacho’s campaign for Life magazine. Between 1958 and 1965, she was a contributor to Mexico This Month magazine directed by Anita Brenner. In the sixties, she made photographic reports for S.Nob magazine directed by Juan García Ponce and Salvador Elizondo.

From 1958 to 1963, she taught at the School of Design at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at the age of 61 she began teaching at the Photography Workshop of the San Carlos Academy.