Silke Hase

Born near Hamburg, Germany Silke now lives in New England.

Silke's work has been described as "poetry in black & white".

In her photographs of landscapes and people, she expresses stories, feelings and dreams; capturing the spirit of a place to make the viewer feel positive and curious.

Her photographs have a signature dreamlike quality that she accomplishes by combining a cheap plastic camera with the 'zone system' (a photographic technique co-invented and perfected by legend Ansel Adams)

As much as Silke appreciates a good color photograph, she believes that black and white adds a mystical or mysterious quality to her photographs that color would take away.

Silke first studied photography at high school in Wedel-Holstein, Germany.

Much of her education is self taught during travel in Europe, Egypt, South America and the US, where she captured landscapes and the faces of the cultures she visited.

For the last couple of years she has been studying the zone system and large format photography (with Nick Johnson), studio photography, portraiture, and Documentary and Photojournalism at the New England School of Photography.

Her photos have been published in the Brookline TAB and in Backstage Magazine and can also be found on various New York Dance Companys websites.

Exhibitions - Group Shows
o Photo2006 Black & White Classic - Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
Juried Exhibition November/December 2006
o artSPACE@16 Gallery - PROOF: in B&W
Juried Exhibition October/ November 2006
o American Juried Art Salon - 2006 Fall/Winter
Juried Art Exhibition
Juried Internet Exhibition
o Center for Photographic Exhibition, Boston, MA October 2005

Exhibitions - Solo Shows
o Carberrys Coffee House, Arlington, MA October 2004
o Godehard Restaurant, Hamburg, Germany March 2002 until February 2006
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