Isa Leshko's Blog

As a longtime fan of the Our Hen House podcast, I’m so excited and honored to be featured on show, which is my first interview since 2019.

The segment begins at around the 15:22 mark.

Mariann Sullivan is such a brilliant interviewer and I really enjoyed our discussion. In addition to talking abo...

Last week, I gave an online artist lecture that was part of the Tufts University Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture series. The lecture was recorded and can be viewed below or on YouTube.

I encourage you to watch the lecture video to the very end. The student questions that I received after my presentation were FANTASTIC. It was really exciting to talk with students who were engaging with my work so thoughtfully.

I am grateful to the Tufts Environmental Studies Department and the School of th...

This year I have released several affordable items including cards, a fine-art poster, and my first book, Allowed to Grow Old released in May by the University of Chicago Press. These items make perfect gifts for photography &/or animal lovers in your life.

And of course I am still offering limited edition prints sold exclusively through my galleries. In addition, I have released a Collector’s Edition for Allowed to Grow Old that will make the perfect gift for someone very special in your...

Allowed to Grow Old was selected by The New York Times as a coffee-table book recommendation for the 2019 Holiday Gift Guide. The Guide ran as a supplement in the November 29th print edition and was published online as well.

BuzzFeed News photo essay editor Gabriel Sanchez picked Allowed to Grow Old as one of his favorite photography books of 2019.

Now This News accompanied Isa to Arthur’s Acres Animal Sanctuary in October to produce a short film about her work and about the sanctuary. The film garnered over 246,000 views on Facebook, over 30,000 views on Twitter, and over 32,000 views on Instagram.

Isa’s exhibition at ClampArt Gallery in New York City received a beautifully written review in Collector Daily. Loring Knoblauch writes:
“Isa Leshko’s photographs of the elderly fit right into this tradition of attentive portrait making. After building trust with her sitters, she gets in close, making empathetic portraits that tenderly capture the personalities of her subjects. Like many elders, they each continue to struggle along, withloneliness, weariness, battered bodies, and the...

I’m excited to share installation images from my Allowed to Grow Old exhibit that runs through November 16th at ClampArt in NYC.

In addition to the work hanging on the walls, ClampArt also has a complete portfolio of viewing prints from my series. In addition, signed copies of Allowed to Grow Old are available for purchase. The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday 10 AM-6 PM.

Thanks to Panopticon Imaging for doing a beautiful job printing my work for this show & to

Allowed to Grow Old is featured in the September/October issue of Photograph. The magazine’s editor Jean Dykstra writes, “Leshko’s portraits bring to mind Peter Hujar’s photographs of animals, which similarly captured the particularity of a dog or horse (or goose or goat), a sense of that creature’s individual consciousness." She adds, “Leshko’s photographs, too, are rich in respect and empathy while avoiding sentimentality….Whatever viewers’ thoughts on animal rights, her pictures give...

Here are the highlights of recent reviews and other press for Allowed to Grow Old from the last month.

"A poignant creation. . . . one of the things that is so remarkable about the portraits – you can see each animal's personality; their singularity and distinction. Each is a beautiful, living individual, not some abstract "thing" produced en masse at a factory for the purpose of fueling humans....Allowed to Grow Old opens a window into possibilities that most of don't think to imagine: W...

Isa has appeared on a flurry of podcasts recently to discuss the release of Allowed to Grow Old. Below is a sampling of recent interviews; click on the logo to visit each podcast site.