Silvia Otte

Silvia Otte was born in Bremen, Germany in 1966.
She studied photography at the Bavarian State Academy for photography in Munich from 1987-1989. After earning her degree in 1989 she moved to New York City, where she lived and worked for 15 years as a freelance editorial portrait and travel photographer for numerous magazines, record companies, as well as other various other commercial clients. Most importantly she worked on different fine art series, exploring perceptual and psychological topics and interrogations like “Noise”, “Quality of Rest”, “Lying in your Absence” and the most current “Organica”.
She moved back to her native Germany in 2005, where she continues her pursuits in experimental photography. Driven by her interest in the human condition, she went back to University and received her Bachelor of Science in 2014 and is currently enrolled in the master program in cognitive affective neuroscience.

Bavarian State Academy 1987-1989

2016 Portraits Hellerau Photography Awards,
Dresden, Germany
2015 “6x6”, Getty Gallery, London, England
2008 Paris Photo Galerie 1900-2000, Paris,
France
2008 b>gallery “I bought me a cat “, Rome, Italy
2007 Paris Photo Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2006 Paris Photo Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2006 Voies Off Festival Arles
2005 Paris Photo Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2004 Paris Photo Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2003 "Among Them", Eglise des Jesuites / Sion,
Switzerland
2002 "Noise", Centro de Cultura Contemporanea
Barcelona , Spain
2001 "Tributary Exhibition”, A.I.R Gallery, New
York City, USA
2000 Exhibition of series “Noise” at Argos
Festival, Vevey, Switzerland