Artist, Photographer,
Manager at the Estonian Union of Photography Artists (FOKU) and FOKU Gallery
Hedi Jaansoo is an artist and photographer based in Tallinn. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with an MA in Contemporary Art (2018) and a BA in Photography (2014), and also studied at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2012–2013). Her work attends to fragilities, weaknesses, tensions, and beauties, among other—mainly small—things. Her practice combines photography, flowers, non-functional jewellery, unfinished thoughts and uncertain decisions, (be)longing and acceptance. A recurring thread throughout her work is a sustained attention to women, grandmothers, gentle acts of resistance, and near-invisibility. In 2023, she was an artist-in-residence at WIELS in Brussels.
She currently manages the Estonian Union of Photography Artists (FOKU) and FOKU Gallery and is the Project Manager of Foto Tallinn 2026.
