Karin Szekessy (born April 17, 1938 in Essen) is a German photographer who lives and works in Hamburg and southern France.

Between 1957 and 1959 she studied photography at the Institute for Photojournalism in Munich.

In 1959 she began taking doll photos, to which she added portraits, artist portraits, still lifes, landscapes and nude photographs from 1963 onwards. It was the nude photographs in particular, the focus of Karin Székessy's work, that made her internationally famous. From 1960 to 1966 Székessy worked as a reportage photographer for the magazine Kristall and was a member of the Zeitgenossen group between 1962 and 1967. From 1967 to 1969 she taught fashion photography at the Werkkunstschule Hamburg.

Karin Székessy was married to the artist Paul Wunderlich from 1971 until his death in 2010. Over the years of marriage, numerous works were created in close correspondence. "The oeuvre of both artists – not least because of their perfection – always walked the fine line between erotic fantasy and luxurious kitsch. And yet, above all, they represent an idea of ​​cultivated cosmopolitan elegance in the West German art world of the 60s and 70s," says Photobastei Zurich.