Justina Hermina Pacek

Justina Pacek, Sister Hermina (27 February 1931 – 14 February 2016) was a Slovenian nurse, photographer, painter, and illustrator. She is remembered for her photographs of ill children and the nurses caring for them, nuns at work and free time, and her documentary photo report on the enclosed Catholic community of Croats in the village of Letnica, Kosovo. She is the first known photographer among the members of Daughters of Charity. Her mother and father were farmers. Justina Hermina immediately dedicated herself to retouching in Sonja’s photography studio. One of her first major external events was photographing the first mass of her nephew, Jože Pacek.