Annika Haas
Bio
Born in 1974, Pärnu
Lives and works in Estonia
University of Tartu, Finno-Ugric languages, BA degree (1992-2000)
Photo Journalism courses at Tartu Art College (1999-2000)
Courses in Professional Photography at the Photo Opportunity Studios in London (2003)
Courses in Documentary Photography at the foto8 gallery in London (2012)
Member of the board Estonian Association of Press Photographers (EPFL) (2012-2015)
Portrait and documentary photography editor in Estonian photo magazine Positiiv (2015-…)
Documentary photography lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts (2018-…)
Curator at the Museum of Photography, Tallinn, Estonia (2020-…)
Selected Publications
The New York Times (USA), The Washington Post (USA), Der Spiegel (GER), Liberation (FRA), Monocle Magazine (UK), San Francisco Chronicle (USA), Aperture Magazine (Malaysia); Lens Culture Magazine (France), Feature Shoot (USA, New York), P3 (Portugal), FK Magazine (Latvia), OST SEE Magazine (Latvia), ZEKE Magazine (USA, Massachusetts), Bird in Flight Magazine (Ukraine), Verve Photo (USA), The Trip Culture (UK), Technologist (Switzerland), Freundin (Deutschland), Aamulehti (Finland), LiveJournal (Russia), ИноСМИ.ru (Russia), Positiiv (Estonia), Eesti Ekspress (Estonia), kunst.ee (Estonia) etc.
Awards
2022 nominated to the best color photo portrait of Kuitaisi Photofestival 2022, Georgia
2019 2ND prize in PHmuseum 2019 Mobile Photo Prize in the (Self)Portrait category; UK
2019 3RD prize in Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2019; Malaysia
2019 Life Framer international photo competition in Youthhood theme; among the 20 best; UK
2017 Estonian Press Photo 2016, winner in the Feature Photo category (with the series To the Frozen Land of refugees in Estonia)
2016 honorable mention in Social Documentary Network Call for Entries on The Fine
Art of Documentary, Massachusetts , USA
2016 finalist of the Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2016, Malaysia
2016 finalist of the Grand Prix Fotofestiwal 2016 in Lodz, Poland
2015 selected to the exhibition of The Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize 2015 in National Portrait Gallery, London
2015 finalist of the LensCulture Exposure Awards 2014
2014 Grand Prize in Estonian Press Photo 2014 contest
2014 First Prize in Documentary, Estonian Press Photo 2014
2013 Nominant at the Estonian Press Photo portrait prize by the Estonian Newspaper Association
2012 October finalist of the monthly International Portrait Photography Award Shoot The Face
http://shoottheface.com/finalistgallery.php
2012 Honorable Mention in the 2012 FotoWeekDC International Awards Competition, Washington DC, USA https://www.fotoweekdc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=181
2010 Nominant at the Estonian Press Photo portrait prize by the Estonian Newspaper Association
2008 First Prize at the Estonian Press Photo competition by the Estonian Newspaper Association
2005 3nd Prize at the “Eye on the Field” competition by the Estonian Fund for Nature and Ministry of Agriculture
2002 First Prize at the „Estonia Transforming!“ international photo competition by the Interbrand
2001 Marked out at the Estonian Nature Photo of the Year competition
2000 2nd Prize at the Tourist Photo of the Year competition by the Estonian Tourist Board
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2023 Greenhouse Effect; Time Space Existence 2023 exhibitions event by European Cultural Centre at Venice Architecture Biennale; Palazzo Mora, Italy
2022, 2023 We, the Roma; festival East Enders II, cultural centrum Hasselt, Belgium
2022 Greenhouse Effect; festival Fictions Documentaires, GRAPh; France, Carcassonne
2022 Greenhouse Effect; Uppsala Fotofestival, MagasinX; Uppsala, Sweden
2021 Greenhouse Effect; Juhan Kuus Documentary Photogaphy Centre gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2021 Portraits of Powerful Women in Estonia; Library of A. Mickevičius, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Plane Watchers; Rae Cultural Center, Harju county, Estonia
2019 – 2020 We, the Roma; Estonian Open Air Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2019 Different but the Same; selected photos from a three-part series on Estonian minorities (a Roma community, a Muslim community and a dacha keepers subculture); Uppsala Fotofestival, Kollaboratoriet venue; Sweden
2019 We, the Roma; pop-up exhibition at Pelgulinna square, Tallinn, Estonia
2019 Anatomy of the Estonian Muslim Community; Foyer Gallery at National Library of Estonia; Tallinn, Estonia
2018 – 2019 We, the Roma; Estonian Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden
2018 The Study of Sight; Pärnu City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia (photography by Annika Haas, sculptures by Elo Liiv and Jekaterina Kultajeva)
2018 We, the Roma; Del Arte Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia
2018 The Study of Sight; Haapsalu City Gallery, Haapsalu, Estonia (photography by Annika Haas, sculptures by Elo Liiv and Jekaterina Kultajeva)
2018 The Study of Sight; Vana-Võromaa Kultuurikoda, Võru, Estonia (photography by Annika Haas, sculptures by Elo Liiv and Jekaterina Kultajeva)
2017, 2018 Plane Watchers; Physicum gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2017 The Study of Sight; Tallinn Art Hall gallery, Estonia (photography by Annika Haas, sculptures by Elo Liiv and Jekaterina Kultajeva)
2017 Plane Watchers; Tallinn Creative Hub (Kultuurikatel), Estonia
2017 OMG, She is Bald!; Telliskivi Creative City gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 OMG, She is Bald!; gallery Saaremaa Art Studio, Kuressaare, Estonia
2016 Plane Watchers; Estonian Photo Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 We, the Roma; European Parliament, Strasbourg, France
2016 We, the Roma; The Nordischer Klang festival, Greifswald, Germany
2016 Plane Watchers; Positiiv Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 We, the Roma; Estonian Embassy in Berlin, Germany
2015 We, the Roma; National Foreign Language Library in Budapest, Hungary
2015 – 2017 Parallel Worlds of the Lake Peipus; arthouse ambulARToorium, Estonia (exhibition with Eva Sepping)
2015 We, the Roma; Emil Gallery in Tampere, Finland
2015 We, the Roma; Estonian Embassy in Helsinki, Finland
2014 Plane Watchers; Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC, USA
2014 We, the Roma; Ugala Theatre, Viljandi
2014 Plane Watchers; at Photoville festival, New York City, USA http://vimeo.com/107024199
2014 We, the Roma; National Library of Estonia, Tallinn
2014 We, the Roma; Postal Museum gallery, Tartu
2013 We, the Roma; Valga museum gallery, Valga
2010 Crooked World. (Kõverpidimaailm), Deco gallery, Tallinn
2003 – 2008 Vanishing Estonian Landscapes. Milk Trestles; Pärnu, Tallinn, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tartu, Paide, Viljandi
2003 Ukraine. People and Time; National Library of Estonia, Tallinn
2001 Review exhibition of EU financed objects in Estonia at the Rural Day of the Movement of Estonian Villages and Small Towns
1998 Beings, Tartu University Library
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 joint exhibition Touch. Small Photo, Big Story; Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 part of the Greenhouse Effect project; Kutaisi International Photofestival ILO; Georgia
2022 part of the Greenhouse Effect project; touring indoor exhibition curated by FETART in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Magdeburg, Stuttgart, Brèmen, Erlangen in Germany
2022 part of the Greenhouse Effect project; Nature Future outdoor exhibition curated by FETART; Brizer Garten, Berlin, Germany
2022 part of the Greenhouse Effect project; Huntenkunst festival 2022 exhibition focused on Estonian authors; Ulft, Netherlands
2022 OMG, She is Bald!; Huntenkunst festival 2022 international art fair; Ulft, Netherlands
2021 Isolation Dialogues; the project of the Museum of Photography; Jaani Seek Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2021 the Greenhouse Effect project at the festival INstantes 2021; Portugal, Avintes
2020 curated exhibition Estonian Portrait Avant-Garde 1980-2020 with Tanel Verk at the Museum of Photography; Tallinn
2020 Familiar Stranger: Collective imagery at the time of mobile photography; Spazio Labo’, Bologna, Italy
2019 KLPA2019 winners and finalists at Photolux Festival; Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy
2019 KLPA2019 winners and finalists at Suwon International Photo Festival; Jeongjo-ro, Suwon, South-Korea
2019 photo installations Minaret and I Cover My Head Not Brain from the photo project Anatomy of the Estonian Muslim Community at the Estonian Art Fair Photo Tallinn, Kai Art Center, Estonia
2019 exhibition of Life Framer Photography Prize Edition V, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2019 exhibition of Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2019 Winners & Finalists, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2019 Photo book “We, the Roma” at the Athens Photo Festival 2019 Photobook Exhibition; Benaki Museum/Pireos 138 in Athens, Greece
2019 Photo book “We, the Roma” at the exhibition Photobooks from the Baltics; Dom kulture Studentski grad; Photomonth in Belgrade, Serbia
2019 portrait photo exhibition Our Own in Tammsaare park outdoor gallery, Tallinn
2019 Periphery: From Kihnu to South Africa by Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre; Ag47 gallery, Aparaaditehas, Tartu
2018 – 2019 We, the Roma as a part of group exhibition The Others by Dokfoto Keskus at Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre gallery, Tallinn
2018 We, the Roma as a part of group exhibition The Others by Dokfoto Keskus at Photoville 2018 in New York City, USA
2018 documentary photography exhibition Eye-to-Eye, curator project at Dokfoto Centre gallery, Telliskivi Creative City, Tallinn
2017 Estonian Photographic Art Fair, Telliskivi Creative City, Tallinn
2017 Periphery: From Kihnu to South Africa by Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre; Documentary Photo Centre gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2017 WoMan by Gallery Positiiv; Tallinn Art Week project Take a Stand! on Freedom Square of Tallinn; Estonia
2017 best of Estonian Press Photography 2016; Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Narva; Estonia
2016 EXTENSION.EE, exhibition of Estonian modern art, Gallery Triumph, Moscow, Russia
2016 portrait photography exhibition Portrait Salon 2016, Metro Imaging gallery, London, UK
2016 Estonian Photographic Art Fair, Telliskivi Creative City, Tallinn
2016 exhibition of Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2016 Winners & Finalists, Whitebox Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2016 exhibition of The Taylor Wessing Phptographic Portrait Prize 2015, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Staffordshire and Scottish National Portrait Gallery, UK
2015 exhibition of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 at National Portrait gallery, London
2015 exhibition of LensCulture Exposure Awards 2014 at Photo London fair; Somerset House, London
2015 festival / manifest VDRUG, photography exhibition Tavai, Viru Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 best of Estonian Press Photography 2014, Viru Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 best of Estonian Press Photography 2013, Viru Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 FotoWeek DC International Awards Competition Winners, FotoWeek Central @ The Warner Building, Washington DC, USA
2012 Estonia in Pictures; Quebec Observatoire de la Capitale, Quebec City, Canada
2011 Prichudie. Revisited; St. John’s Church, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2011 Culture of Russian Old Believers; Narva Museum, Narva, Estonia
2011 Prichudie. Revisited; Yugo-Zapadnaya Centre, Moscow, Russia
2010 Young Sight and Sound about Europe; Accademia Reale di Spagna, Rome, Italy
2010 Prichudie. Revisited; State Art Gallery, Perm, Russia
2010 EtnoFotorism; series of four different photo exhibitions at Russian Theatre, Estonian National Library, Solaris Centre and Gallery of Theatre Vanemuine, Tallinn, Tartu, Estonia
2010 Estonia in Pictures; Estonian Embassy in Ottawa, Canada
2009 What Lies Beneath. Nature and Urban Landscape in EU Photography; House of Sweden, Washington D.C, USA
2009 Prichudie. Revisited; Northern Institute of Åland, Mariehamn, Åland, Finland
2009 Estonia in Pictures; Estonian Embassy in Washington, Washington D.C, USA
2008 Prichudie. Revisited; festival Walestonia; Cardiff, Wales, UK
2008 Prichudie. Revisited; Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Photo Festival FotoWeek DC, International Photographers exhibition at FotoWeek DC Central, Washington D.C, USA
2008 Les Recontres d’Arles/Photo Festival Arles – the European Night Project, European Photographic Identities; Paris, France
2008 Prichudie. Revisited; Town Art Center, Pskov, Russia
2008 Prichudie. Revisited; National Library of Karelia, Petroskoy, the Republic of Karelia
2007 Prichudie. Revisited; gallery ambulARToorium, Tartu county, Estonia