Silke grew up with a love for drawing and making things by hand, but as a child she wasn’t given the chance to pursue formal art education. From a young age, she was deeply moved by nature, especially during walks in the mountains.
 

In 1994, she was introduced to (analog) photography through Krist Demasure †, who was her first mentor. From that moment on, visual language kept drawing her in. In 2015, she began a photography course, and in 2023 she graduated with a final project centered on the search for her biological father.
 

Her photographs breathe vulnerability and humanity. They reveal the soft and the raw, the unseen and the everyday. In her work, she creates space for people and moments to simply exist as they are.
Even without a camera, she notices fleeting fragments of light, detail, and stillness in daily life.
 

She is the mother of two children and works as a social worker at Violett in Ghent, where she provides social support to sex workers.