Anna Landa immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union with her family inthe late 1980s as Soviet policies became more restrictive towards Jews. Experiencing the world from the viewpoint of an “other,” her artistic interests were shaped by the need to seek out commonalities between people across cultures. Using a camera lens to study and better understand her new landscape led her to experiment with the medium in more creative ways, including the USSR practice of printing silver gelatin photographs by hand in the bathtub of her apartment. More recently her interest in immersive works led her to expand her practice to include installations, now using the camera as an object and portal to shifting perspectives. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Landa has held solo exhibitions at Christopher Henry Gallery in New York City, at The Growlery and Savernack Street in San Francisco, and has contributed interactive works to the California Academy of Sciences. She continues to exhibit her work nationally in solo and group shows.