A native of New York City, PAULA KOTIS studied psychology at Hunter College, graduating in 1943. She learned photographic skills from her father in his Upper East Side portrait studio. Immersing herself in this work and eventually taking charge of the studio, Kotis began to produce and receive notice for her own pictures. Ms. Kotis studied the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and others and commenced to produce a powerful body of photographs taken in New York and throughout Europe.She was a gifted photographer whose magazine assignments brought her to post-war Europe and Israel in 1948-49, where she documented the dramatic changes taking place during that period. Her acclaimed photos from that time include images documenting the journey of Jewish Holocaust survivors from displaced persons camps near Famagusta, Cyprus to the port of Haifa in northern Israel. In the 1950s, Ms. Kotis collaborated on projects with the novelist James Baldwin and the poet Frank O’Hara, and photographed jazz greats including Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle, Ebony, Arts, Evergreen Review and U.S. Camera.Ms. Kotis had numerous exhibitions of her photography at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, a major retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2010, and exhibitions at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (2001), and the Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery in New York City (2000). Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Provincetown Art Association and Museum. During her years in Wellfleet, Ms. Kotis was a mother, a real-estate agent, sold antique posters and, much to her joy, saw her photographic work rediscovered and appreciated.