Heidi Hollinger has photographed world leaders including Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jean Chrétien, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama. She moved to Moscow for a decade in 1991 after graduating from McGill University. In 1994 she began work as the first non-Russian photo editor at Pravda. In 1995 she opened a portrait studio in Moscow and began to receive commissions from Russian political leaders. Between 1999 and 2002 she published five books including The Russians Emerge (Abbeville Press USA 2002). Her works have been presented in over thirty solo exhibitions around the world from Omsk to Los Angeles and can be found in the permanent collections of the Moscow History Museum, the Moscow House of Photography, Cirque du soleil and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Heidi Hollinger is represented by ANNA GOODSON MANAGEMENT