San Francisco, CA | Fort Collins, CO
Also known as: lisakristine
Lisa Kristine creates more than images, she inspires change. A master storyteller, Lisa documents indigenous cultures in more than countries on six continents. Awakening compassion and igniting action in a worldwide audience with powerful images of courage and tender, intimate portrayals, Lisa elevates significant social causessuch as the elimination of human slavery and the unification of humanityto missions. Lisa has gained broad recognition for her collaboration with Free the Slaves. This breathtaking body of work, illuminating human enslavement, is brought together in Slavery, published in . Lisa has received global attention for her work across media platforms, including CNN and Reuters, speaking at TED events, museums, NGOs, business conferences, colleges and universities. Lisa was the sole exhibitor at the Vancouver Peace Summit, attended by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other award winning Nobel Laureates. Christies New York, in celebration with Kofi Annan, has auctioned her images to benefit the United Nations. The Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Queen Mother of Bhutan and Amnesty International, have all endorsed her work. Her photographs inspired the Make a Stand Lemonade movement, which has raised more than a million dollars and has enlightened awareness of over million people toward the eradication of slavery. Lisa has published books and has been the subject of documentaries. Her work on Slavery will be featured in two films to be released in . SOLD the movie, made by Oscar Award winning team, Emma Thompson and Jeffrey Brown, includes a character inspired by Lisa. Currently Lisa is producing two exhibitions, one entitled Enslaved, a visual story of modern day slavery, and the other Pillar of Spirit, which explores Bhutan in the face of modernity. Just as she hopes these bodies of work will inspire awareness and change, she continues to seek out projects in which her images can have a positive impact in our world. Specialties Lisa Kristine is a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer specializing in humanitarian images of remote indigenous peoples.
