Lisa Kessler is an editorial and documentary photographer whose work criss-crosses the worlds of journalism and art. Her photographs and short film are in "Document: Contemporary Social Documentary work from Greater Boston" at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston (Feb/March 2006), and in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was a finalist in the Massachusetts Cultural Council's 2005 Artist Grant Program, and received the 2004 Honorable Mention from the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman Foundation First Book Prize in Photography for her project "Heart in the Wound: Sexual Abuse from the Catholic Church to Civil Society." She won an Award of Excellence from the 2002 Pictures of the Year International competition for that magazine story. Kessler was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in 1999 for "Shades of Grace," a personal documentary project published in 2002 in DoubleTake magazine. Her other personal projects include "Camp If," an interfaith leadership program for Muslim, Christian and Jewish teenagers; "Faces of Survivors: Depicting the Legacy of Homicide;" and "After the Quakes," documenting community redevelopment in Mexico City. Kessler holds degrees from Brown University and Boston University. She works for editorial, corporate and non-profit clients, and teaches photography at Northeastern University.