Rita Leistner

Rita Leistner is a multi-award-winning photographer, writer and filmmaker. She is known for her ability to build close personal bonds with her subjects and for creating bespoke conceptual and aesthetic approaches to the wide variety of subjects she tackles-soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, women wrestlers, a women's psychiatric ward in war-time Baghdad, tree planters in Canada, etc. Her work has been published in hundreds of outlets, exhibited in nine countries, and is in major public art collections including The Canadian War Museum and The National Gallery of Canada. In addition to a feature length documentary film, her latest work, "Forest for the Trees", is also a photobook and a collection of large-scale fine-art photographs. She is based in Toronto and Montreal.