tiwi collection
My friends the Tiwi Indigenous Australians. The collection that is closest to my heart. 2 books and many exhibitions.
Exhibition Hameln Germany 25 August 2023
Zimmermann (carpenter) 1958
Heide Smith Soltsien - Master of Light and Shade
Most of the 55 images in this exhibition were taken before I married and left Germany in 1963. My name was still Soltsien, and I worked as a photo journalist for the Dewezet Daily Newspaper. Some of the images were taken in 1979, when I was commissioned by CW Niemeyer, the owner of the Dewezet, to photograph Hameln for a book Lebendiges Hameln.
If you are unable to travel to Hameln to see the exhibition, I invite you to see them on this website in my Hameln Collection Gallery
more photographs of heide smith
canberra collection
I photographed Canberra and its people for more than 35 years, and have published 5 Canberra books.
fotoheide
This was my business name when I lived and worked as a professional photographer in Hameln Germany.
portraits
Although I am comfortable in most forms of photography, I regard myself primarily as a People Photographer
landscape photographs
Just like everyone else with a camera in their hand, I can't resist shooting a great landscape!
vintage photographs
Original prints from the analogue period of my career, some are 60 years old; for serious collectors
bookshop
"Portrait of Canberra and of Canberrans" & "Portrait of a People - the Tiwi of N Australia"
blog
Behind every image is a story; read the stories behind Heide’s most memorable assignments
Reviews
"Heide Smith has become Australia's most important female photographer of recent times. Of course, this also makes her one of Australia's most important contemporary photographers, but women have particularly struggled to be seen in this country, and history will, one day, record the true value of Heide's contribution to our visual history"
Paul Burrows Profoto Magazine There are more reviews in about heide