The Bear Gallery : Sasha Bosbeer

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Sasha Bosbeer

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Sasha

Sasha Bosbeer is a photographer and potter based in the West of Ireland. Sasha started taking photos at a young age with a simple box camera. Sasha studied at Yale University in Connecticut, where her photographs were used in the yearbook and in college directories and art magazines. She also held two one-woman photography shows at Yale.

After college, Sasha continued to take photographs while working in international exchange work in Siberia and in Washington, DC. She studied forestry in the Netherlands (accompanied by a borrowed Nikon F50) and focussed on plants as well as people. She moved to Galway in 1995, a year with a summer full of sunshine and good light on wet bogs and blue seas. Since then, she has earned a PhD in botany, lectured at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, and contributed photographs to several publications on forestry and biodiversity. She also donated herimages for several series of greeting cards. In addition, Sasha developed her interest in hand-built pottery with visual textures and rustic forms. In 2007, Sasha held a one-woman show of portraits of people affected by the tsunami in Sri Lanka, in support of the Galway Sri Lanka Project.

2008 exhibition: Inside Outside: Wild Places

poster of 2007 exhibition, Resilience (portraits from Sri Lanka)

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