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ABOUT & CONTACT. EXTERNAL LINKS. FOREST FOR THE TREES PROJECT WEBSITE. FROM JANET WITH LOVE. LOOKING FOR MARSHALL MCLUHAN IN AFGHANISTAN.
- INFINITE DISTANCE (Pandemic Year One)
A photo collaboration by RITA LEISTNER and DON MCKELLAR “You...
- SUM OF THE PARTS (Pandemic Portraits)
SOME OF THE PARTS a pandemic portrait series (Pandemic year...
- THE TREE PLANTERS and ENCHANTED FORESTS
Rita Leistner—The Tree Planters—Portraits and Enchanted...
- LEVANT TRILOGY
RITA LEISTNER? link to gallery. LEBANON, ISRAEL, PALESTINE —...
- ABOUT & CONTACT
ABOUT. Canadian artist Rita Leistner uses photography and...
- Crazyhorse in Iraq
RITA LEISTNER? link to gallery. CRAZYHORSE IN IRAQ The...
- Helicopter Logging
Helicopter Logging in the Pacific Coast Range Mountains ....
- Prisoners of War
Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson and Rita...
- INFINITE DISTANCE (Pandemic Year One)
Rita Leistner is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2021 documentary film Forest for the Trees , for which she was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
ABOUT. Canadian artist Rita Leistner uses photography and film to create portraits of communities in extreme conditions—such as soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, female patients at psychiatric hospitals in wartime, women wrestlers in the United States, and loggers and tree planters in Canada—exploring themes of purpose, struggle, and belonging.
Apr 4, 2024 · Rita Leistner is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker who creates portraits of communities living in extreme conditions, typically investing months or years in a project. After spending a decade of her formative years as a tree planter in the Canadian wilderness, she returned to this theme to document a new generation of planters from 2016 to ...
Rita Leistner studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and has a Master of Arts degree in comparative literature in French and English from the University of Toronto (1990), where from 2010-2016 she taught the history of photojournalism and documentary photography.
Leistner, Rita, "The Tree Planters, GEO France (feature), June Leistner, Rita, "The Tree Planters" in Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial, by Daniel Ibanez, Jane Hutton and Kiel Moe. Barcelona: Actar Publishers 2018 Leistner, Rita, "Photography Goes to War," (essay) in Neumüller, Moritz, ed. The Routledge
Canadian artist Rita Leistner uses photography and film to create portraits of communities in extreme conditions—such as soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, female patients at psychiatric hospitals in wartime, women wrestlers in the United States, and loggers and tree planters in Canada—exploring themes of purpose, struggle, and belonging.
