Sophie Licht

My name is Sophie Licht. Although being born in Belgium, I am currently living in South Africa.
As a qualified Business Coach and Specialist Global Trainer, I travel the world sharing my knowledge.

The latter translates into a decade of passion and continued pursuit in the space of Personal Development and growth. I started to see life and my surroundings with an additional creative lense.

This incredible sense of purpose combined with my passion for photography and inspiration turned me into an Art Photographer, Storyteller and Light-Seeker focusing on travel, vistas and street art.

Capturing the energy in images and turning them into inspirational photography is the name of the game for me.

How you may ask?

Finding the Extra-ordinary in the ordinary which invites us to re-awaken into our everyday environment and with a sense of mindfulness. Only later did I discover that the philosophy I resonate with most is called Wabi-Sabi. A Japanese philosophy that helps us discover the sacred, beauty and peace in the everyday and perfection residing in ordinary things.

All my imagery is very textured, layered and bursting in colours.

I held my first solo exhibition last year in November at a sought af...

Who is Sophie Licht? Born in Antwerp, educated in Switzerland, and today a truly global citizen with a multinational heritage and history, this art photographer describes herself as a traveller by nature, a dreamer by design, and a business coach and skills facilitator by profession.
Her global skills training career has given her the gift of eclectic sights, sounds, experiences and settings, in which she is able to capture architecture, vistas, textures, micro details and portraits.
Licht adds, “The thread that binds my work is a passion for humanity and a compassion for nature. Today, we human beings need as much connection, to ourselves and to each other, as we can get. I hope that visitors to Chispa can recognise in its images the language of light, land and the living.”

My solo self funded exhibition was held at the Gerard Sekoto Gallery, Alliance Francaise in Johannesburg, South Africa on 10 October 2018. Titled CHISPA [(n.) Spanish: 'spark', from chispa de luz ('spark of light’)], the exhibition spans six categories or themes, including ‘All The Light Touches’, ‘Consumption’, and ‘Optimist, Pessimist, Existentialist’, all of which reflect the tangible and intangible bursts of light that happen all around us, all the time.
Says Licht, “I believe that, in the modern world, our personal spaces need more dreaminess. More sensory satisfaction. More potential to become lost in a scene made up of light, colour, and texture. In each photograph within Chispa, I attempt to capture something essential, that may at the same time be something nameless. Fluid. Elusive. Like light itself.”