School of Arts and Humanities Staff Profile - Heike Löwenstein
Email: h.lowensteinucs.ac.uk|
Heike Löwenstein is the course leader for the BA (Hons) Photography. Before joining University Campus Suffolk in September 2007 she has taught photography and digital imaging in London, Glasgow and Blackpool since the year 2000.
Her research interests lie in the formation of identity through the interaction between people and environment. The exploration of space and place in itself and also in relation to the human form in history, society, the arts and photography play a central role in her research.
During the last two years she has also started to (re)engage with the use of 3D and other CGI technology in an area that is maybe best described as reality based visualisation and explores the still revolutionary ability to create photo-realistic images of objects and environments that don't physically exist. She has been awarded a fellowship to develop curriculum in this area for the School of Arts.
Whilst Heike's work has taken a more project- and research based form during the last few years, the same interest has run as a strand through her photographic practice during the last 20 years. During this time she has focused on documentary and editorial on one hand and architecture and industrial photography on the other. She has worked for clients like Stern, Zitty, TAZ and OTIS in Berlin, Germany and for ellipsis publishing, Dorling Kindersley and BMW in London and all over the UK. She has had several books with her work published and had numerous solo and group shows in Berlin, London and New York between 1993 and 2007.
Heike has lived in the UK since 1996. She has completed an MA in Hypermedia Studies at the University of Westminster| in 1997. She will start her PhD in Photography in January 2010 at the Glasgow School of Art|.
Heike is a founding member of thenetwerk®| - a Photography photography research group formed by practitioners/ lecturers based across East Anglia, UK.