Rita Leistner
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Canadian artist, documentary photographer and filmmaker
Canadian artist Rita Leistner is an award-winning photo-documentarian, writer and former war photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally, published widely and is in private, corporate and public collections. In 2021 she completed a five-year project about tree planting in Canada consisting of an exhibition of large-scale prints, a photography book, and her first feature documentary film, Forest for the Trees. She is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.