In 1929, Ellen Auerbach opened the photography studio Ringl und Pit together with Grete Stern, with whom she shaped modern advertising and portrait photography of their day. In 1933, the two Jewish women were forced to leave Germany. Auerbach emigrated to Palestine, a few years later, after an intermediate stop in London, arriving in the United States, where she was able to maintain a living with photography commissions. Her artistic work was only recognized in the 1970s, when she already worked as a children’s therapist and only occasionally took pictures. Emotionally speaking, Auerbach remained an exile her whole life long: “I don’t consider myself a European or an American, but as an entirely unsatisfactory cosmopolitan.”