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Rita Leistner (born 1964,

Victoria College within the University of Toronto

.

Early life and education

Leistner was born in

International Center for Photography in New York City

.

To earn money to attend school, Leistner planted more than a half million trees in Canada between 1984-1993.[4]

Career

Iraq and Afghanistan

The Levant

The Tree Planters

Selected Publications

2014 Leistner, Rita. Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan. Foreword by Julian Stallabrass. London: Intellect Books / The University of Chicago Press, February 2014.

2013 Leistner, Rita. "Embedded with Murders." Memories of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images. Ed. Julian Stallabrass. London: Photoworks, 2013. 82-99.

2013 Leistner, Rita. "Rita Leistner." Ed. Michael Kamber. The Untold Stories from Iraq: Photojournalists on War. Austin: University of Texas Press, Spring 2013. 156-162

2010 Leistner, Rita and Marie Clements. The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story. Vancouver: Talon Books, 2010.

2006 Leistner, Rita. "Detained." Suspect. Ed. John Knechtel. Cambridge: MIT Press and Alphabet City Media, 2006. 96-107.

2005 Leistner, Rita and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson. Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq. Foreword by Philip Jones Griffiths. Vermont: Chelsea Green, 2005.

Films

2013 Miklat. Dir. Rita Leistner. Short Documentary.

Collections

Awards

External links

http://ritaleistner.com/

References

^ "Shovels as Weapons: "The Tree Planters" by Rita Leistner at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto | Artinfo". Artinfo. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
^ "This Is What Tree Planting Looks Like to a War Photographer". Vice. VICE. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
^ Bloom, Jessica (20 October 2017). "Seven amazing portraits of tree planters working in B.C.'s remote backcountry". Toronto Life. Toronto Life. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
^ Hampson, Sarah. "'I own nothing but cameras'". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

[BLOUIN_ARTINFO-1] "Shovels as Weapons: "The Tree Planters" by Rita Leistner at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto | Artinfo". Artinfo. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

[VICE_2017-2] "This Is What Tree Planting Looks Like to a War Photographer". Vice. VICE. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

[Toronto_Life,_2017.-3] Bloom, Jessica (20 October 2017). "Seven amazing portraits of tree planters working in B.C.'s remote backcountry". Toronto Life. Toronto Life. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

[Globe_and_Mail,_2004.-4] Hampson, Sarah. "'I own nothing but cameras'". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 11 November 2018.