Gabriella Meros grew up in Munich. She graduated at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich before working as an assistant to well-known international photographers. She studied at the ICP in New York in classes also by Sheila Metzner. A jury chaired by Steven Meisel awarded her the first prize for Young International Fashion Photographers at Parsons School of Design. Later she specialized in portraits of mostly film personalities, made a successful career and photographed Steven Spielberg for years. She has applied her style to commercials as well. As a director she was the first female director in Germany to use 3-D technology for commercial clips. For documentary portraits she focusses on Jewish themes. Now she works on projects about her family, the Shoah and wrote her first scripts for documentaries.