BIRGIT PÜVE
Currently based in Estonia.
Besides personal projects is available for assignments, location work and private commissions.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Monocle, L'Express, Le Monde, NBC News, Getty Images, GEO, Internazionale, Forbes Austria, Ryanair Magazine, Newsweek Polska, PDN Magazine, Smith Journal, The Fader, Figaro Japan, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Ogoniok, Malibu Magazine, Kunst.ee magazine etc.
AWARDS & HONORS
2018 Belarus in Focus 2017/International competition for journalists writing about Belarus in international media; for the story 'Alina in Lukaland' (about transgender issues in Belarus), winner together with author Katerina Barushka, Minsk, Belarus
2017 LensCulture's 30 Female Photographers to Watch, Paris, France
2017 Estonian Press Photo of the Year 2016, winner in Sports category (with the portrait series of young sumo wrestlers), Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Pentax Portrait Photo of the Year 2016, 3rd Prize, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 PDN's 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, Nominee, New York, USA
2015 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015, Exhibitor, London, UK
2015 LensCulture Exposure Awards, Finalist, Paris, France
2014 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014, 3rd Prize, London, UK
2014 Estonian Press Photo of the Year, 1st Prize in Portraiture, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 Estonian Press Photo of the Year, 1st Prize in Portraiture, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Spectrum Emerging Talent, The Sunday Times Magazine, London, UK
2011 PDN Photo Annual 2011, winner in category 'Personal', New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 'Kynö', European Art Centre, Bialystok, Poland
2018 'Kynö', Rathausgalerie, Greifswald, Germany
2017 'Sanctuary / Varjupaik', Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2017 'Kynö', Kihnu museum, Kihnu island, Estonia
2016 'Estonian Documents', 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London, UK
2016 'Estonian Documents', 'By The Lake', Gallery Sztuka Wyboru, Gdansk, Poland
2015 'Estonian Documents', Interphoto Festival, European Art Centre, Bialystok, Poland
2015 'Estonian Documents', Deutsche Journalisten-Verband Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2015 'Double Matters', St, John's Church, Tartu, Estonia
2015 'By The Lake', Tushino Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 'Estonian Documents', The Estonian Embassy in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2015 'Double Matters', The Photographic Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 'Estonian Documents', 'By The Lake', Gallery der Stadt Fellbach, European Art and Culture Festival 2014, Fellbach, Germany
2014 'By The Lake', Krupp, Russia
2013 'By The Lake', Pskov State United Historical, Architectural and Fine Arts Museum, Pskov, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 'Estonian Documents', CinEast Festival, Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2017 Beyond91 group exhibition, Gallery CLB Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2016 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 exhibition, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Staffordshire and Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2016 'topo ing rame' by WiE Kultur Galerie, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, Berlin, Germany
2015 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2015 'By The Lake', Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
2015 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2015 Amber Road Show, Photon Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Vienna, Austria
2014 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2014 Amber Road Show, Flensburger Schifffahrtsmuseum, Flensburg, Germany
2013 Amber Road Show, Fotoforum Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
2013 'Where You End, I Begin', Photomonth '13, Tartu Art House, Estonia
2013 Amber Road Show, Castle of Wolkersdorf, Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel, Austria
2012 'By the Lake', 'Estonian Documents', Fair of Photographic Art of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 'Cosmogony', Kuldiga Town Exhibition Hall, Kuldiga, Latvia
2012 'By The Lake', Nighttime screening of THE FENCE photo exhibition in Photoville, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2012 'Estonia In Pictures', Quebec Observatoire de la Capitale,
Quebec City, Canada
2011 'Prichudie. Revisited', St. John's Church, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2011 'Prichudie. Revisited', Yugo-Zapadnaya Centre, Moscow, Russia
2010 'Prichudie. Revisited', State Art Gallery, Perm, Russia
2010 'EtnoFotorism', National Library of Estonia, Russian Theatre, Tallinn; Gallery of Theatre Vanemuine, Tartu, Estonia
2010 'By The Lake', visual presentation of contemporary photography projects of Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, Gallery Golden Belt, Durham, NC, USA
2010 'Estonia In Pictures', Estonian Embassy in Ottawa, Canada
2009 'Underworlds', Goethe Institute, Riga, Latvia
2009 'Prichudie. Revisited', Northern Institute of Aland, Mariehamn, Aland, Finland
2009 'Estonia In Pictures', Estonian Embassy in Washington, Washington D.C, USA
2008 'Prichudie. Revisited', Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 'Prichudie. Revisited', Festival WALESTONIA, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2008 'Man's World', Goethe Institute, Riga, Latvia
2008 'Prichudie. Revisited', Cultural House of Pskov, Pskov, Russia
2008 'European Landscapes', Les Rencontres d'Arles/ Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France
2008 'Prichudie. Revisited', Cultural House, Petroskoy, The Republic of Karelia
2007 'Prichudie. Revisited', Gallery ambulARToorium, Estonia
BOOKS
2013 'Elada mitmuses' ('Double Matters'), photobook of identical twins and triplets, hardcover, 128 pages, publisher Hea Lugu.
Selected among 25 Best Designed Books in 2013.
SELECTED FEATURES
2015 Project 'By the Lake' on LensCulture, March 9
2014 TIME Lightbox, See This Year's Best Portrait Photographs, October 29
2013 Documentary 'Image Catchers', December
2012 GUP Magazine, November 12
2012 Beyond Spectrum, The Sunday Times Magazine, August 6
2012 FK Magazine, June 6, 2012, interview by Arnis Balcus
2011 GEO Magazine, June 2011, pp 108-111
2011 PDN Photo Annual, May 2011, pp 127
2011 Camera Obscura, April 15, 2011
2010 Joerg Colberg, Conscientious photography blog, November 16
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Galerie der Stadt Fellbach, Germany; Estonian Theatre and Music Museum, Estonia, and in private collections in Estonia, Finland, Germany, UK, USA
MEMBERSHIPS
Estonian Union of Photography Artists,
Estonian Association of Press Photographers