Hanna Kelker Ph.D. is a scientist by training and by profession. She studied at the University of Warsaw, Purdue University and Michigan State University. She served on faculty at the New York University School of Medicine (Department of Medicine) where she conducted research on the development of an AIDS vaccine. She is a member of PIASA’s Board of Directors where, among her other duties, she serves as a Chair of PIASA Events Committee. With a keen lifelong interest in the arts and always fascinated by photography, she has recently begun a serious artistic pursuit using digital photography.
Her passion is to photograph ephemeral images created by light. “I delight in photographing the impressions of images such as reflections and landscapes painted by light with wonderful colors that change in tone and hue with the movement of the sun passing through the day from sunrise to sunset. I am fascinated by shadows that create replicas of the objects that cast them to create a distinct mood that accentuates the characteristics of the setting. Shadows can create a lyrical effect in woods or gardens by adding fragile vegetation of their own that evolve with the passing day, or they can be perceived as menacing in a modern urban environment.”

Hanna Kelker’s photographic work has been shown at the Salon of the Polish American Photographers Club (2008 and 2011), the Kips Bay Art Show, the New York University School of Medicine and the Soho Photo Gallery. Her photographs were shown as a solo photographic exhibition at the Gallery of Kurier Plus (May, 2011) and at the PIASA Gallery (October, 2011).
The exhibition was reviewed by Czeslaw Karkowski (text in Polish) and can be found on the internet www.kurierplus.com (May 28th, 2011, page 7). Photographs from the exhibition taken by Zosia Zeleska Bobrowski can be seen at http://www.poland.us/strona,15,8605,0.html