Leslie Addison is a photographer and mixed media artist from New Orleans. She is currently represented in New Orleans by Cole Pratt Gallery as well as by Gallery 119 in Jackson, MS and Southside Gallery in Oxford MS.Her work has been featured at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, and in exhibitions at the Mississippi Museum of Art, and University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art.It is included in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.Leslie was born and raised in Louisiana. She has many generations of family ties to the Deep South and the areas around Port Gibson, MS. With her husband, photographer George Yerger, they have worked together on the projects Firefly Diaries; Memories and Dreams of a River Country, Phantom Winds; a Mystic Hymn of Louisiana and the new Field Notes; Searching for Southern Mythology. These projects draw from their connection to, and deep love for these ancestral places. For many years they have also been passionately involved in photographic series from South and Central America. This work has taken them to Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Guatemala.Leslie attended the Art Institute of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico but her influences started practically at birth. Her grandmother was the fine art photographer Dina Woelffer. As a student of - and then fellow teacher with Aaron Siskind and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Institute of Design, she formed life long friendships with them as well as other mid century photographers and painters. Her husband was the well known Abstract Expressionist painter Emerson Woelffer.“Through them and their friendships with Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Max Earnst and others I was exposed to a constant flow of influences which helped shape my vision and passion."