Heidi Hollinger | |
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) |
Alma mater | McGill University |
Known for | photographer |
Website | heidihollinger |
Heidi Hollinger (born 1968) is a political photographer, documentary presenter and politician.
Hollinger was born in Montreal, Quebec and attended McGill University. [1]
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. [1] [2] [3]
Hollinger's work is held in the following public collections:
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. [6]
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