Suse Byk

{{Short description|German photographer (1884–1943)}}

File:Tanzgruppe-skoronel-foto-susebyk-1920erjahre.jpg dance troupe by Suse Byk, Berlin, 1920s]]

File:Albert Einstein by Suse Byk.png

Suse Byk was born 10 August 1884 in Berlin into a Jewish family of Ukrainian origin.

Suse Byk worked as a theatre and film photographer based in Berlin. Her work is in the Morgan Library & Museum{{Cite web |date=2021-07-09 |title=Sigrid Onégin as Fidès in Meyerbeer's Le prophète [photograph]. |url=https://www.themorgan.org/music-manuscripts-and-printed-music/394359 |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=The Morgan Library & Museum |language=en}} and Museum of Photography, Berlin.{{Cite web |title=Theatre at the Museum of Photography |url=https://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/theater-im-museum-fuer-fotografie/ |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=Museumsportal Berlin |language=en}} She joined the Berlin Photographer Association in 1910.{{Cite web |title=Vassiliev Foundation: Organization: Studio Ernst Sandau (German circa 1905 – 1938) [Studio Ernst Sandau] |url=https://ns3103723.ip-145-239-9.eu/pawtucket/index.php/Detail/entities/2465 |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=ns3103723.ip-145-239-9.eu}} Byk's photographs of Valeska Gert appeared in Fred Hildenbrandt's 1928 book about the dancer.{{Cite web |title=Empire of Ecstasy |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft167nb0sp&chunk.id=d0e9131&toc.id=&brand=ucpress |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=publishing.cdlib.org}}File:Valeska Gert 'Tod' - Foto Suse Byk, 1923-1925.jpg photograph by Suse Byk]]

Byk married writer and journalist {{ill|Hellmuth Falkenfeld|de}} in 1927.

She died 10 September 1943 in Manhattan, New York City.{{Cite web |title=1938: Photographs – AbeBooks |url=https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/kw/1938/photo/ |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=www.abebooks.com |language=en}}