Leah Gordon (b.1959 Ellesmere Port) is a Briitish photgrapher and film-maker who has an ongoing interest in and relationship with Haiti. She first visited Haiti in 1991 and was the official photographer for the 1994 Amnesty International Report on that country.
She has exhibited widely, her images featuring in numerous public and private collections including that of the National Portrait Gallery, London. She participated in the Riflemaker exhibition 'Voo-doo' in 2009. She has recently returned to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. Her upcoming exhibition 'The Invisibles' will include photographs sold to benefit victims of the disaster.
Gordon is currently at work on a documentary about the Grande Rue Sculptors and is the author of The Book of Vodou: Vodou and Art (Quarto 2000).
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Artists: Leah Gordon