Mother and Daughter

Rita Leistner is an award-winning artist, photo-documentarian, photo-historian, lecturer, author, filmmaker and former war photographer whose photography and writing have been disseminated widely through books, magazines, exhibitions and collections. She is currently immersed in a long-term personal project that includes an exhibition and a book, The Tree Planters, and a film, Forest for the Trees. Rita is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.

Finalist Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Harvard University Three Canadian National Magazine Awards Gold Medals PX3 Portrait Prize 3rd Place World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Award 2nd Prize Finalist Marshall McLuhan Award in Media Ecology