J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Rita Leistner

Photographer and filmmaker, Rita Leistner, blends fine art with documentary in her intensely lit, unstaged, metaphorically-inspired environmental portraits of the tree planters reforesting the cut blocks devastated by commercial logging. In this conversation, Rita Leistner discusses, among other things:Uncanny use of lightAn innate sense of compositionFeeling not with the heart or head — but with the spineThe power of artificial lightingWhat  makes communities workBush legs and tree eyesCapturing visual vocabulary in the real worldLight as mediaThe whiteness of the whaleLiving the work

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