Lana Šlezić

Lana Šlezić was born in 1973 in Toronto, Canada to Croatian parents. In 2005 she was selected for the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gold National Magazine Award of Canada for Photojournalism (2005), the International Photography Award  for an editorial feature story (United States, 2006), and the Luis Valtuena Humanitarian Photography Award (Spain, 2007). Forsaken is her first book.

Mets & Schilt (Netherlands), Powerhouse Books (USA), Anansi (Canada), Edition Braus (Germany) and Blume (Spain). In 2007 it was chosen by American Photo Magazine as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year.

Her work has been published by National Geographic Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine, The New York Times, Paris Match, British Journal of Photography and many more.