Heide Smith – A South Coast Selection PeopleOne of the first things we noticed when we moved to the South Coast, was the friendliness of the people. Both Heide and Brian spent their childhoods in relatively small semi-rural communities, where people always greeted you and asked how you were. Quite different to living in a city. […]
Exhibition in Hameln Germany 25 Aug 2023 Heide Smith Soltsien – Master of Light and Shade Recently I was approached by the Hameln Stadt Museum, nearly 60 years after my departure from Germany, to discuss an exhibition of my images of Hameln, my hometown, I was over the moon. To find that my early work is considered […]
Alte Silber Gelantine Fotografie von Hameln 1956Die ‘Josef Lebovic Gallerie, Sydney, Australien’ gab vor einer Woche einen Katalog mit seltenen Fotos -unter anderen auch von Alt Hameln- heraus. Die Aufnahmen stammen von den Jahren 1955-1961, als Heide(Smith)Soltsien erst noch Foto-Lehrling war, und spaeter als Fotografin an der Tages-Zeitung DEWEZET als Fotoreporterin arbeitete. Der Katalog hat die […]