The Literary Review of Canada

Rita Leistner is a politically and socially engaged lens-based artist whose concerned photography uses conceptual approaches to create photographs with a special relationship to current events and the human condition. Her work has been exhibited widely and published in many magazines. She is co-author of several books, including Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq; and The Edward Curtis Project, co-created with Métis/Dene playwright Marie Clements. Rita has an MA in comparative literature from The University of Toronto, where she currently teaches a course on photojournalism and documentary photography.