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.