 Pääsuke's work was highly appreciated by ERM, which opened an exhibition of the photographs on 2 August 1913.Pääsuke is known to have taken more than 1,300 photographs on glass plates in this national ethnographic project, which also included two larger series, one made in 1908–13 across much of the south of the nation, and the other made in 1914 in Tartu.Pääsuke was also the first Estonian to make a film.