About
Solaka Photography - New York City
Elizabeth Solaka Photography, New York. esolaka@gmail.com
NYC Local Family Business since 1996. Wedding packages start at 3,600 for 4 hours.
Approach
Our family has been connecting and collaborating creatively with cherished clients since 1996. We specialize in wedding and event, portrait and headshot photography, and also sell fine art prints.
Origins of the Founder:
Elizabeth was born in Lafayette Park, a neighborhood in downtown Detroit, the youngest of lots of siblings. Her mom, a ballerina, also ran a cheesecake and catering business and later a blues bar, Soup Kitchen Saloon. She grew up surrounded by the arts—musicians, Broadway casts and dancers were regulars at her home. She even played piano with blues legend Willie Dixon at the bar, while people, including her mom, danced on tables.
Her father, born in Iraq, was an architect who later joined the family grocery store business. As a kid she roamed the neighborhood alone; ate breakfast before walking to school at Zukin’s, the local deli, where she had a running tab; and ran into Motown artists such as the Spinners and the Temptations while she grabbed a King Cone from the freezer at her dad’s store; went for a swim at the pool on top of a parking structure between two Mies van der Rohe apartment towers; and got books from a bookmobile called RIF (Reading is Fun).
She’s lived in Paris, Berlin, Boston, Northern California and LA, but aside from Detroit, New York has always been her home sweet home and professional headquarters.
We put our whole heart into everything we do. Check out my dozens of 5-star reviews on Wedding Wire to get an idea of our style and customer satisfaction.
Best wishes, and hope to hear from you.
2011
Let’s talk about your project or event.
Partial list of clients and exhibitions:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Lowell, and Fine Arts
Partial list of exhibitions:
• Essential, New York. Multimedia group exhibition, October 2009
• Arthouse Productions. Photographs and video short, Vespa, October 2008
• Madame Claude, Jersey City. Film short, The Other Side of the Bed, October 2008
• Faces of Grace, Grace Church, Jersey City, 2007
• Cathedral Arts Show, Grace Church, Jersey City, 2006
• LITM Gallery, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jersey City, 2006
• Open Studios, Jersey City, September 2005
• Slow Commotion II: Detroit, December 2003
• Slow Commotion, The University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum Annex, January 2002
• Remember San Francisco Sonntags-Club, Berlin, Germany, July 2000
• Soirée du Soleil, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, during a residency, multimedia exhibition including performance using electronic sound, video projection, laser light and photography, March 2000
• Brainwash San Francisco, performance and exhibition, October 1999
• On the Page/Off the Page, San Francisco Public Library, slide presentation of photographs through Revelation Gallery, poetry and sound, October 1999
• Leukemia Foundation Art Auction, Revelation Gallery, San Francisco, California, September 1999
• Featured Artist, Artisan Creative, San Francisco, California, October 1999
• The Naked and the Nude, New England School of Photography Gallery, Boston, July 1998
• Women in Photography, Fort Point Artist Community Gallery, Boston, February 1997
• Open Studios, Fort Point Artist Community, Boston, October 1996
• Open Studios Group Show, Fort Point Artist Community Gallery, Boston, October 1996
• Figures of Speech, New England School of Photography Gallery, Boston August 1996
• The Big/Little Show, White Elephant Gallery, Boston, June 1996
Elizabeth Solaka Photography, New York photographer esolaka@gmail.com
Porthole, 2007
