Building a Zeppelin

Creator

British Photographer · 1878–1972

While working in a bank in London around 1900, Emil Otto Hoppé took up photography as a hobby. Just three years later, he joined the Royal Photographic Society and began regularly exhibiting his images. In 1907 Hoppé opened his first studio and began to do commercial work for magazines and newspapers. Around 1911 he began his long association with performers and the theatre; he photographed member