Candida Höfer (born 1944) is a Cologne, Germany-based photographer and a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students – Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth – Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual approach.Frieze Magazine, Issue 126, October 2009 From 1997 to 2000, she taught as professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe.