*1928 GB
A.k.a. Martha Gordon
Marti Friedlander, CNZM (born 1928) is a New Zealand photographer.Born in England to Russian Jewish immigrants, from the age of three she was raised in orphanages together with her sister Anne. She married Gerrard Friedlander, a New Zealander of German Jewish origin, in 1957 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1958. In New Zealand she worked as a nurse for her husband who worked as a dentist. After she lost their first child in 1963 she was spurred onwards to take photos of other children. As an outsider she found herself in a strange land, and began taking photographs to document and understand the country she had adopted.