Leslie Tuttle

Leslie Tuttle received her BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College in 1972 and her MBA from Boston University in 1986.  She lived and worked as a photojournalist in Turkey from 1974 to 1978. In the early 1980’s, she spent four years working for Oxfam America, primarily focused on women’s development projects overseas. Her work there included shooting and producing slides shows as well as written and visual materials for educational and development purposes.

In 2000, she reopened her black and white darkroom when asked to contribute sixty prints from her early Turkish work for a show to be exhibited in London and Istanbul. Since then, she has returned to Turkey to document the changes in the lives of some of the women she knew in the1970’s, resulting in a one woman show at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library in 2003. With this show, she has undertaken the inevitable shift into digital photography. She is currently putting together a book with photos and interviews about the Turkish women which she hopes to circulate as an exhibit aimed at increasing understanding of Muslim women in the United States.

 

 

 

 

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