Lesly Deschler Canossi

Lesly Deschler Canossi is a photographer, photography educator, and cultural producer. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she focused on the museological object's role in constructing culture. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and has taught at Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy. In 2016, she and Zoraida Lopez-Diago co-created Women Picturing Revolution (WPR), an organization dedicated to female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolutions private realms and public spaces. WPR. presented for Fast Forward: Women in Photography at the Tate Modern on their forthcoming volume Another Way of Knowing: Representations of Black Motherhood in Contemporary Photography, Leuven University Press, distributed by Cornell University Press in North America. Deschler Canossi recently created the panel, Urgent Pictures! Photographs of Unrest Reconsidered, for the photography festival, Focus on the Story. Her ongoing personal photographic project Domestic Negotiations (2012 - present) explores autonomy, partnership, and the role of the mother as artist. She currently works as an independent cultural producer, visualizing concepts, lecturing, leading seminars, and curating panels for educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and corporate clients.