Heidi Hollinger

Heidi Hollinger (born 1968) is a political photographer, documentary presenter and politician.

Life and work Hollinger was born in Montreal, Quebec and attended McGill University.

After opening a photo studio in Moscow, she photographed over 100 political conventions in Russia, and traveled extensively to photograph other world leaders, including Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jean Chrétien, Fidel Castro, and the Dalai Lama.

After living for ten years in Moscow she returned to Montreal. For four years starting January 2011, she was a presenter of documentary series Waterfront Cities of The World for Discovery Channel. Each of 39 episodes of this series described one of the port cities in different parts of the world.

Exhibitions Faces of the Opposition, Moscow Photo Center (1994); Kazan, Tatarstan (1994); Omsk, Russia (1994); Bergamot Station Galleries, Los Angeles (1995); Building Moscow, Moscow City Hall (1995) Monsieur Poutine, Vous Permettez?. Montreal: Semaine, 2008. 300 Reasons to Love Havana. Montreal: Homme, 2018. 300 raisons d'aimer La Havane. Montreal: Homme, 2018. 300 Reasons to Love Havana, Second Edition. Montreal: Homme, 2024.

Collections Hollinger's work is held in the following public collections: Moscow History Museum Moscow House of Photography Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art

Politics On May 14, 2021, it was announced that Hollinger would join Ensemble Montréal as a city councilor candidate in the Saint-Henri-Est-Petite-Bourgogne-Pointe-Saint-Charles-Griffintown electoral district for the 2021 Montreal municipal election.

Municipal electoral record