Inge Bondi was born in Berlin. During World War II , she worked for the BBC's European Service. In 1946, she became the Managing Editor of "Radio Week" in the British Government's Public Information Office. She joined Magnum New York in 1950 where she worked closely with the original founders and learnt photo editing from Ernst Haas and Werner Bischof. She has written extensively on photography and produced the book "Chim - The Photographs of David Seymour."