Kaupo Kikkas is an Estonian

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

photographer.

Life and work

He graduated

Tallinn Music High School Tallinn Music High School ( et, Tallinna Muusikakeskkool) is a special music high school in Tallinn, Estonia. History TMHS was founded in 1961 to ensure a sufficient number of quality applicants to the Tallinn State Conservatory (now Estonian ...

, but switched from music to photography instead. He has often photographed people in the field of music, like

Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in pa ...

, etc. He specialises in photographing people related to classical music.

Awards

In 2009 he won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes in the group portrait category of the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International competition. In 2012 he won the portrait photography category in Wedding and Portrait Photography Baltic 2012.Wedding and Portrait Photography Baltic 2012
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Books

*''Amazonas. Elu ainus foto''. 2013. .

Gallery

VKG Ojamaa kaevandus.jpg, VKG Ojamaa mine Peaminister Andrus Ansip (K. Kikkas).jpg, Andrus Ansip Taavi Rõivas photographed by Kaupo Kikkas (6424).jpg, Taavi Rõivas Florian Dohrmann, (c) Kaupo Kikkas.tif, Florian Dohrmann Marko Matvere (K. Kikkas).jpg,

Marko Matvere Marko Matvere (born 4 February 1968) is an Estonian actor and singer. He was the lead actor of the Tallinn City Theatre, but left to become a freelance actor in 2004. Biography Matvere was born in Pärnu and graduated from the Tallinn Conservat ...

Toomas Vavilov (K. Kikkas).jpg, Toomas Vavilov

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kikkas, Kaupo Estonian photographers Living people Artists from Tallinn Year of birth missing (living people)