Photographer In Focus: Isa Leshko

American photographer Isa Leshka’s latest photo series is a collection of elderly animals. The photo series is both quirky and touching, a combination of adjectives that is hard to put together but Leshka was able to achieve.

Check her website http://isaleshko.com

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Isa Leshko (b. 1971) is a photographer living in Philadelphia, PA. She has exhibited her work widely throughout the United States, including solo shows at the Corden|Potts Gallery, the Galveston Arts Center, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Houston Arts Alliance Gallery, and the Richard Levy Gallery. Her work is in numerous private collections and has been purchased by the Boston Public Library, Haverford College, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for their permanent collections.

Isa’s work has been reviewed and published widely throughout the globe, including coverage in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The New York Times, NPR, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (SZ-Magazin), The Washington Post, and Zoom Magazine. She has received four Prix de la Photographie, Paris Awards and was selected to participate in the 2010 Review Santa Fe Portfolio Review. She was named a Critical Mass Finalist in 2010 and 2011 and a finalist for the 2011 New Orleans Photo Alliance Clarence John Laughlin Award. She was recently nominated for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography.

Isa founded Exit 12 Press in 2010 and published Thrills & Chills (ISBN: 978-0-615-35421-7), an exhibition catalog to accompany her solo exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography. The publication was named one of the best photography books of 2010 by Larissa Leclair, curator and director/founder of the Indie Photobook Library. The catalog has been added to the holdings of many public collections, including the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Boston Public Library and the Southeast Museum of Photography Reference Library.

Isa grew up in Carteret, an industrial town situated off the New Jersey Turnpike. She received her BA from Haverford College, where she studied cognitive psychology and neurobiology. Isa spent 13 years residing in Salem, MA and has also lived in Houston, TX, Portsmouth, NH, and Providence, RI. She spent the 1990s working for dot.com startups as a project manager and software engineer before she discovered her passion for photography.

Isa’s work is represented by the Corden|Potts Gallery in San Francisco, CA, the John Cleary Gallery in Houston, TX and the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, NM.