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 […]

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 analogue prints of Germany 1955 – 1970Up until 2000 I shot everything with my analogue cameras, and printed everything in my analogue darkroom. Which left me with lots of old analogue prints, most of which are now called Vintage Prints or Vintage Photographs. The prints in this gallery are not strictly speaking Vintage Prints. They […]

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 photographs of europe 1951-2013  Having been born in Germany, and having married an Englishman, I am reasonably acquainted with Europe. When we had a studio in Canberra, we visited Fotokino, and family, every two years. So I do have a few shots of other parts of Europe in my archives. For some reason I have not […]

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 vintage prints of germany 1955 – 1961   About Vintage photographs of Germany : These rare Vintage Photographs of Germany were taken before I left Germany in 1963. Together with the prints in the analogue gallery, they are the only prints of mine remaining from that period. My work as a photo journalist gave me plenty of […]

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