About Helen
Helen Sobiralski
After Helen was born in 1981, she grew up near Dortmund in the German Ruhr-Area.
Helen started using the camera in her mid-teens, fascinated by the medium’s capacity to open doors to other worlds, yet remaining grounded in the present. After absolving a classic apprenticeship as an all analogue portrait photographer, she studied photography and received her Communication Design Diploma from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund – with First-Class Honours in 2012.
Since then, Helen has been living in Berlin and working as an award-winning freelance photographer, primarily on fashion, portrait and fine art projects with different photographic mediums.
Helen likes telling a story in her images and draws her inspiration upon many different influences like mythology, literature, films, painting, sculpture and not rarely her own dreams. She enjoys working on location with natural light, but also likes creating stories in her Berlin studio, as long as props, sets or an original idea will allow her to create something out of the ordinary.
Awards
2012 Reinhart-Wolf-Award, winner
2012 BFF Sponsorship Award, winner
2012 FH Dortmund Sponsorship Award, winner
2012 Katapult, 2nd place
2012 Katapult B-sight award, winner
Group shows / Exhibitions
2020 - Widerkunst // Säälchen am Holzmarkt, Berlin
2018 - Spirit of Nature // Raum25, Freiburg
2014 - Pictoplasma Portrait Gallery //
Marco, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
2014 - Pictoplasma Portrait Gallery // Berlin
2013 - BFF // Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart
2012 - Atlantic Kempinski Hotel // Hamburg
2012 - Art Fabrik // Wuppertal
2012 - Katapult // Frankfurt
2012 - Schauraum // FH Dortmund
