Leica Celebrates 100 Years with Wall Exhibition at Gansevoort Square Join Leica in celebrating a century of iconic photography with a powerful outdoor wall exhibition featuring the work of 54 acclaimed artists. Taking place on Saturday, May 3rd from 12–5 PM at Gansevoort Square, this special event honors Leica’s 100-year legacy through the lenses of […]

My first Japanese hot spring experience in Beppu, a town often shrouded in water vapor on the southern island of Kyushu, converted me into a furo-aholic (bath-aholic) in the early 1990s. More than three decades later I still find the magical waters an endless source of both visual and visceral pleasure.

My newest photographic project, Love Between Us, Hatred Behind Us, honestly addresses some dark aspects of our common history. I believe Voltaire’s famous maxim: To the living we owe respect; To the dead we owe only truth. We have come to understand that much of our troubled present is anchored to a troubled past. So, […]

Purchasers of a limited-edition Devo print are cordially invited to a private reception at Leica Gallery LA. This exclusive event offers a rare opportunity to meet the band in person and have your print and Certificate of Authenticity personally signed by Devo.   Neal Preston Neal took this print on Sunset Boulevard, in front of […]

In this collection of intimate images, Barbara Davidson depicts the current American landscape, photographed through a prism of social injustice. She explores the complicated ways that inequality, empowerment, and hope connect and disconnect in our current cultural landscape.   Davidson’s Leica 100 collaboration, with Joel Meyerowitz, aims to reveal how the American panorama has evolved and devolved since the 1960s and 70s – the golden era of street photography – and […]

“To see the world as moments, fleeting moments, rather than the continuous flow of daily life is what I search for. The power of a still image to capture a fleeting moment and make it a permanent memory has always captivated me. The Pop Art movement of the 1950’s and 60’s, along with the Surrealist […]

MAIN STREET is the culmination of 11 years of travels along Route 66 – the 2,400-mile stretch between Chicago and Santa Monica, called the “mother road” in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”. Keating ventured westward and back, insightfully documenting life along 66 and lives of Americans that have clung to it.       […]

“When I arrived as a young Frenchman in 1964, New York City was chaotic, dirty, gritty, loud and dangerous, but it was also attractive, provocative, brave, enchanting, joyous and free. “New York Noir” is inspired by the 1940 Film Noir. It is filled with a sense of danger, it is violent and upbeat, simple and […]

“Every time I shoot in New York I get the feeling that I am standing on the top floor of America looking down at it all, even while shooting at street level. There is a constant sense of elevation at every scale of interaction with the city. Glittering and iridescent both day and night, it […]

Welcome to “Stay Focused,” my inaugural photo gallery exhibit that delves into the intimate, unguarded moments leading up to one of the world’s most intense and captivating spectacles: the game of football. My name is Travis Ellison, and I have dedicated over a decade to capturing the raw and exhilarating essence of sports and entertainment […]

MARC KARZEN was born in Paris and raised between Louisville KY and Los Angeles. Karzen’s photographic career grew out of Kodachrome freestyle, straight environmental social reportage, magazine fashion photography, music portraiture — and into the unique area of on-air photography for television.  Karzen has shot for European publications including Harpers & Queen, Depeche Mode, Company, 20ans, […]

As I stand before this scene, the ceaseless dance of water and light, I am struck by its mystery, its ability to stir the soul. The ocean, vast and eternal, holds a thousand secrets in its depths, echoes of lives lived and yet to be, of love lost and found. In its ever-shifting hues and […]

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “As a child, the approach of bedtime filled me with dread. I embodied the quintessential image of a child, tightly clutching his trusty flashlight, haunted by the fear that elusive specters might be lurking beneath my bed, or concealed within the pitch-black darkness […]

“I am influenced by the Pictorialism approach to photography. I’m interested in composition, tonality and shapes. Add some social commentary and you have the basis of this show. I try to reduce as much detail as possible. It’s the impression that matters. The fact that the images have a soft and out of focus look […]

“The work shown is a small sampling of the things we see along the way. Moments that, without evidence, might be overlooked or, if seen for a second, might not be remembered. It’s about the small details of life and in the world around us. I find a lot of magic in these places and […]

Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) wanders endlessly, taking lengthy road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique landscape process and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide for a stable façade—implying the instability that often lies […]

Ever since my mother took over a bare-walled hair salon, I’ve understood the natural connection between Beauty, Illusion, & Art. I knew I had a knack for covering walls with photographs that juxtaposed Beauty‘s ability to empower and objectify women, while drawing viewers in with ease and temptation. My move from London to New York […]

Growing up on film sets, I’ve always had an obsession with world building. The intricate set details, the actors deep in character, the blurring of lines between what is real and what is make-believe. As I got older, I began to crave stories exploring women and queer characters in traditionally male dominated roles and power […]

Chromatic Alchemy explores the parallels between cacti‘s adaptive methods of survival and humanity’s own coping mechanisms in hostile environments. Similar to cacti’s evolving spines in order to thrive in inhospitable conditions, humans navigate emotional aridity by developing their own “energetic thorns”—a defensive coping system shaped to protect against the pain of life‘s challenges. Captured within […]

  Some years after losing my husband, I decided to reinvent my life, so I purchased a small ranch in Montana and a camera, neither of which I knew how to operate. I began visiting small towns at night. A woman standing alone on the streets after dark with a camera naturally aroused suspicion and […]

God is a cloud God is a plant God is life and death God is present A bridge between past and future Seen and unseen Adorned in intricate and meticulously constructed costumes, the Egungun are the spirit catchers of Benin. As powerful intermediaries who navigate the realm between past and present, and by extension the […]

Paris. City of lights and dreams. City of love and poetry. City of Jazz and majesty. The city that made my favorite artists better artists because of the alchemy that runs through its core and turns every moment into gold. I left my hometown of Paris in 1987, but Paris has never left me. The […]

PRESS RELEASE (click here) (click on artist name for their personal interview) TANYA ALEXIS (Photographer, Energy Healer, loyal customer) KWAKU ALSTON (Celebrity and Film Photographer) DEBORAH ANDERSON (Documentary filmmaker, Women of the White Buffalo, Author) RAY BARBEE (Skateboarding phenom, Musician, Vans ) PER BERNAL  MATHIEU BITTON (Celebrity Photographer, Artist, Darker than Blue) SEAN BLACK (Artist, […]

“When I came of age in the late 70’s and early 80’s, it was in the middle of an artistic rebellion that changed the face of politics and culture forever. This was the era of Punk; bold, self-expressed, and free. An era of music, attitude and fashion that spat in the face of the established […]

MONEYGAME offers an intimate exploration into the lives of exotic dancers, challenging preconceptions, and revealing the audacity and courage that define this profession. As an artist who has long traversed the periphery of various subcultures, Elizabeth Waterman’s dive into this world was not a spontaneous plunge but an intentional immersion that began in 2016 at […]

Yul Brynner was an Oscar and Tony-winning actor, famous for his roles in The King and I, The Ten Commandments, and The Magnificent Seven. He was also a renowned photographer of considerable skill, whose body of work was defined by his strong behind-the-scenes imagery of mid- century Hollywood. Influenced by the work of his friends […]

Leica Gallery LA and the American Society of Cinematographers are delighted to invite you to the opening of an exhibition of still photographs by ASC members at the Leica Gallery LA. These photos have been selected and curated by Leica Gallery Director Paris Chong. The photographs cover a wide range of subjects and locations and […]

Alex Shibutani is an LA-based photographer. He is a two-time Olympic medalist in figure skating and Hall of Famer. Off the ice, he is an author and producer. I find that photography shares many commonalities with skating… The duality of technique and artistry. The importance of mindfulness and being present to capture the moment. The […]

I have never had a difficult time writing an artist statement but this particular effort eludes me. I keep wanting to draw the connection between a sense of melancholy or longing and the desperate expanse of the desert. I keep wanting to comment on the feminine energy I feel vibrating off the sand; the rolling […]

I began documenting life on my grandparents’cotton farm in 1978 when I was twenty-one. After forty years, I have come to realize all my photographs taken here are explorations of home,an idea that remains firmly rooted in the Arkansas land and people. I’ve also come to realize that the place I call home is not […]

I have spent my entire career photographing children all over the world. The last several years I have focused my eyes on the Irish Traveller that live in caravans on the side of the road or in open fields throughout Ireland. The Traveller community are an Irish nomadic indigenous ethnic minority. There is no recorded […]

‘#?@&*$!’ exhibits a series of stylized portraits inspired by 1960’s exploitation films, cartoons & the dark feminine. Rage, chaos, transformation, expletives, and violence – a side of femininity that has been suppressed by modern patriarchal standards, shamed and deemed, ‘unladylike’ – the divine feminine as a stick of dynamite and a bag of cash. I […]

Maggie Steber’s exhibition is an intimate recording of her mother’s voyage over the melancholy sea of dementia. An only child of an only parent, Steber oversaw her mother’s care for nine years, sharing that voyage of being forgotten. She used photography as a therapeutic Tool to survive this longest goodbye. The fact that Steber never […]

Terry LaRue is a Seattle-based photographer and printmaker who has turned to the camera to confront and eternalize the struggles that come with a life of excruciating pain and the side effects that follow. He lives with a rare condition, CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), that continues to challenge his physical and mental health. La […]

Six years ago, I made a conscious decision to take a chance on myself. I felt called to express myself through a new medium, inspired to expand the experience of our culture in a different way; to embark on a journey filled with a level of depth that only art can evoke. As a first […]

The continued opportunity to walk amongst the Oceti Sakowin, meaning Seven Council Fires and known to some as the Sioux Nation, was only made possible because of my work with them for the feature documentary film Women Of The White Buffalo that began in 2018 and was released in April 2022.I received a master class […]

Annina Roescheisen is a multimedia fine artist who works with the effect and the symbolism of colours and their ability to evoke human emotions. In doing so, she deals with subjects such as the self and the others, the inner and the outer worlds, the visible and the invisible, dreams and reality. Her oeuvre covers […]

The Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum singer/song writer Seal– whose full name is Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, began his career in London at the beginning of the nineties. He has been in the show business spotlight ever since: in addition to being internationally famous for his numerous cult-status hits, such as “Crazy”, “Kiss From a Rose” […]

Luca Locatelli is an environmental photographer and film-maker focused on the relations between people, science-technology and the environment. Locatelli produces his stories in collaboration with editors, journalists, environmentalists, and scientists in order to further contextualize his research. Deeply rooted in documentary and journalistic production, his work revolves around the making of the future. For more […]

The photographer’s long-term project is rather like an on-going exposure of the differences and, above all, the commonalities between girls and women all over the world. For Magnoni, photography is her passion and a part of her true self. She uses the camera to capture everyday scenes, in which she sees aspects of herself reflected. […]

Leica Gallery Los Angeles presents Anthony Friedkin’s “The Gay Essay”, a series of photographs made between 1969 and 1973. At the outset of the photographer’s long and productive career, “The Gay Essay” is a kaleidoscopic, personal response to gay life in Los Angeles and San Francisco at the dawn of the Gay Liberation movement. More […]

Features that identify us are often collectively referred to as character. These qualities are both visible upon first glance or become distinguishable only after a period of time, such as in getting to know the content of one‘s character. The images in this exhibition showcase character through the characteristics of love, humanity, accomplishment, and diversity. […]

Karen Zusman is a writer and poet who came to photography to better document human trafficking stories in Southeast Asia. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum for the City of New York and The International Center for Photography. She is a 2021 recipient of the Leica Women’s Foto Project Award for her Super […]

Los Angeles and Santa Fe based Cira Crowell, founder of InLightWorks Productions, is a fine ar t photographer and the executive producer whose award-winning initial film, Dream Mountain , has been selected by top-tier national and international festivals and tours, including the esteemed Banff World Tour. Cira has summited numerous mountains, including two technical Himalayan […]

An exploration of the ideals and icons that represent this country to the furthest ends of the earth. Bringing together images of our patriotic symbols, our vast and varied landscapes, and the tapestry of our humanity poses the question, in a time of heated debate: What does it mean to be an American? With every […]

When I look at this series I struggle to find the connective thread: a “theme,” a cohesive through-line. What I see are moments strung together like frames on a roll of old film forgotten about then found at the bottom of a cluttered drawer and developed years later. My life since becoming a mother is […]

Remarkable Women features some of Mary Ellen Marks most memorable images from her lifelong study on women‘s issues. Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) has been a leading documentary photographer for over 30 years and has achieved worldwide visibility through her many exhibitions, books, photo essays and portraits. Mark traveled extensively since her first trip to Turkey […]

When my friend Marty Cohen asked if I was interested in doing a project in Israel I immediately responded yes! I had always thought of going there but my expectations were less than I discovered. It soon became apparent that as a photographer there was a wealth of material to experience. Israel is the oldest […]

“As a professional athlete in the NFL, I’m accustomed to having the camera directed at me. Picking up a camera a couple years ago enabled me to express my side of the story. Whether I’m at the training facility with my teammates, out shooting random moments I find interesting or documenting daily life, photography gives […]

There has always been the space in-between. Like a cloud – not the technological imposter it has inspired, it is a nebulous, dynamic space of constant interchange, respiration and restoration. It is a space of contemplation, neither here nor there, but transitional, and transformative – a space where unexpected truths collide and reveal themselves. It […]

Photographer Cheriss May discovered that visual storytelling is her passion, and found her purpose. She documents history and democracy as a photographer based in Washington, DC. Cheriss’s work centers on the intersectionality of race, culture, and politics – from the White House to Capitol Hill, and in communities in the Washington metropolitan area. Through her […]

”There’s a time warp deep in the Nevada desert, far beyond the seediness of the Las Vegas Strip — way out past the places where the wild horses roam. WILD DOGS chronicles the day-to-day life of old school courtesans, soul survivors who — through the art of sensual seduction — provide flesh and fantasy for […]

Al Satterwhite is a veteran photographer who has been published in major magazines such as Life, Time, Sports Illustrated. Published photographic books of his work include The Cozumel Diary (Hunter Thompson in Mexico), Satterwhite on Color & Design, Lights! Camera! Advertising!, the Racers, Titans (Muhammad Ali & Arnold Schwarzenegger). He’s currently working on two more […]

In his series Metropolis, photographer Alan Schaller interprets the disconnection between people in the digital age. The series examines the way in which we are dwarfed by the world around us, and how that feels. “It is a subject that impacts a vast majority of the world. People are substituting real relationships for digital ones. […]

As an actor, filmmaker and comedian, I often find myself interacting with people in truly unique ways. The very nature of my job means I am able to see people how no one else sees them. Whether it be my co-stars in down time on set, talk show hosts while I sit in their interview […]

“I have felt a certain power of color awakening in me.” – Vincent van Gogh When Van Gogh was 30 years old and had been an artist for three years, he discovered color. Color soon dominated all his perceptions of the world. In 1888, Van Gogh took a train from Paris to Arles (which he […]

These images are a selection of photographs produced for National Geographic over 25 years ago—both published and never seen. My hope was that black & white film and a formal square frame would transport the reader back in time, allowing them to stay by Van Gogh’s side, as he traveled through his elevated and tortured […]

Over a lifetime, we accumulate experiences that end up being like wallpaper in a house where our subconscious resides. The Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma holds the photographs on that wallpaper, made in the shadows of a dark side of me that I have, as of late, begun to re-explore. Without meaning to make them […]

”It is a true privilege to have someone reveal themselves to me, a complete stranger with a camera in his hands. That level of connection in photography creates the drive to look far beyond myself. However, knowing something of where you’re coming from has to come first. In making a photograph, I value my initial […]

Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. What makes Cartier-Bresson’s vast body of work so universally impressive is that he was seemingly present at every significant event and in the intimate company of every important figure of the 20th Century. Trained as a painter at a young age, Cartier-Bresson was […]

Decades before the current debate about migrant caravans and border security, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Don Bartletti was documenting the unprecedented migration of people across the San Diego/Tijuana border that dwarfs today’s statistics. Throughout the 1980’s and 90’s, this was a pathway of least resistance, a doorway to opportunity for millions of Mexican and Central […]

Huynh Cong Ut was born in Long An, Vietnam (then part of French Indochina) on March 29, 1951. Soon after his beloved brother Huynh Thanh My was killed covering the Vietnam War for Associated Press (AP) in 1965, Ut jointed the prestigious news gathering agency. Known professionally as Nick Ut, he covered the war in […]

Photographer Michael Muller has packed several lifetimes worth of adventure into a mere four decades of life. Raised in Northern California, he spent much of his childhood in Saudi Arabia, where his father, an amateur photographer, oversaw the building of the port city of Jubail. In his mid-teens and 50 countries later, he began taking […]

“The Digital dialectic suggests that anything digital is compressed … and this applies equally to color. Saturation, hue and timbre serve to create an imagery unique and not very similar to analog film. For this reason, I welcome the idea of a new visual language; another system of control. Digital speaks in subtle ways, often […]

Shortly after completing college, Charlie decided to change directions and pursue a career in photography. Other than a deep appreciation for the photographic image, he had no experience in the field. He wandered the streets trying to see if he was capable of creating quality photographs, to see if he could teach himself how to […]

Renowned cinematographer Mandy Walker first stepped into the world of image making when her father built her a dark room in the old shed behind her childhood home in Australia. Since then, Walker’s illustrious career has seen her shoot such films as Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia,’ and Oscar-nominated ‘Hidden Figures’. She is currently shooting Niki Caro’s […]

“Becoming a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, has been both a total joy and rebalancing of a life – along with getting married. When this show at the Leica Gallery Los Angeles was first discussed, I submitted my Leica 35mm film portfolios from India, Eastern Turkey, and eight years of repeat trips to […]

Multimedia artist and Celebrated Rock & Roll Photographer Norman Seeff uses documentary filmmaking and conversations with artists in the context of the session as vehicles to explore the creative process from the inside out. Seeff‘s approach is to focus on the relationship with the artist to create spontaneous experiences in the moment and capture images […]

Melanie Pullen’s love of photography stems from an image’s ability to tell a story in a single frame. Her photography is influenced by early forensic photography, war journalism, cinema and fashion. Unseen Stories, is a series of carefully selected photographs from Melanie Pullen’s fashion stories and other rarely seen pieces. Pullen notes, that she often […]

For photographer Manfred Baumann, the fascination of photography lies in departing from the familiar and capturing an impression of the moment. He loves to explore the world through the eyes of a photographer. For more than 20 years, he has sought he most distant places in the world, where his breathtaking landscape photographs are created. […]

Too often women in history have been silenced. We have lost the stories of courage and important moments in our transformation of ideas that have changed the destiny of the world. Mynxii White has created portraits based on strong women in history who have implemented and inspired change that shook and activated a revolution through […]

Jim Marshall’s unseen “peace” photographs, collated and published here for the first time are a timely document for our world today. 60 years after the creation of the CND peace symbol, this body of work is a beautiful and thoughtful reflection from one of the most celebrated photographers of the twentieth century. Renowned street artist […]

From Protest to Performance: New Work 2016-2018 by portrait, fashion editorial and art photographer, director and publisher of Black & Grey magazine delivers a series of photos defined, and unafraid of current history and inspired by historical movements, and future speculation. Showcasing both his art directed editorial work and his stylized reportage-like imagery that gives […]

I recently travelled to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the home to the Oglala Lakota Nation and I met with the women that are the backbone of the community and keepers of their ancient wisdom. These photos presented are stills from my upcoming feature documentary film about the Native Women that live on […]

In his giant outdoor studio where he controls space, time and light, Alain Laboile watches his six children. He captures moments of nothing, the unexpected as the expected, the blooming as the outbreak, imagination as banality. His tracking shots put everything on hold: the passage of time, the waltz of the clouds, the leaves in […]

I sometimes wonder if perhaps I flatter myself by using the French term flaneur to describe how I photograph when in Paris. But for more than 50 years as a photographer – no matter where in the world my magazine assignments or self-determined travels have taken me in quest of imagery – I have, in […]

Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, Medical Doctor and Photographer Yasuhisa Ishii began his photography with a Leica M8 in 2009. “Paris-Tokyo” pursues a “Silence” in two different “Noisy” metropolises. Ishii introspects his own self in the noisy Tokyo, in other words, Tokyo made him. “A metropolis is a human made complex so has artificial […]

Sarah Lee is a London based photographer who came to the medium whilst studying literature at University College London in the late 1990s. Since graduating she’s worked for numerous clients both commercial and editorial, including The Guardian, specializing in portraiture features and the Arts. Lee has been published by a number of other publications including […]

In this exhibition I explore the ‘Peacock Effect’. The Peacock Effect is signified by an individual morphing from a placid state of appearance into a full state of exoticised self, displaying a metaphoric ‘fan-like crest of feathers’ – feathers that are a form of adornment and can become a protective and attractive exoskeleton to our […]

“Shooting live music is something few photographers do really well. I just discovered one day I was good at it. You can’t teach it, you can’t learn it, just do it. The recipe is as follows: one part love of photography, one part love of music, one part love of theater and theatrical lighting, one […]

ARTIST STATEMENT The famous “blue pool” at the Pigozzi family‘s Villa Dorane at Cap d‘Antibes has seen actors, models, musicians, and photographers since it was built in 1953. Apart from being the locus of Pigozzi‘s numerous photographs, glamourous birthday parties and Vogue photoshoots have also been hosted there. Color and black-and-white photographs of celebrities including […]

In a show titled Conversations with Angels, Nikki Sixx’s most precious moments and interactions from the past decade will be displayed in an intimate series of photos depicting homelessness and drug addiction, topics that Sixx was all too familiar with before photography helped change his life. The exhibit, Conversations with Angels, will be on display at the Leica Gallery Los […]

ARTIST’S STATEMENT Fearless Genius: Next Generation – A Work in Progress This body of work looks at the next generation of would-be innovators and entrepreneurs who face special challenges as they attempt to catch the next wave of new technology. My photographs are primarily from a hackathon where college students compete over 48 hours to […]

Born in Houston in 1949, Arthur Meyerson is a celebrated award winning photographer and highly sought-after workshop instructor. Since 1974, he has traveled throughout the world photographing for advertising, corporate, and editorial clients. Meyerson is a three-time winner of Adweek’s Southwest Photographer of the Year award, a gold medal recipient from the Art Directors Club […]

Jim Marshall (1936-2010) has been called the most celebrated and prolific photographer of the twentieth century. During the extraordinary rise of popular culture and counterculture in the 1960s, Marshall seemed to be everywhere that mattered. His images of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Brian Jones and Johnny Cash, amongst many more, are woven into the lore […]

“GO” Statement “In 1974 I went to see a wonderful exhibition at MoMA New York called “New Japanese Photography “and it blew me away.  I thought that if they were making such good photographs in Japan, it had to be a good place for me to work.  I kept this idea somewhere on my mind […]

I go out every day with the intention of breaking visual rules and creating evocative, cinematic images that inspire.” – Michael Grecco Michael Grecco is an award-winning and internationally renowned photographer of celebrity portraits, advertising and editorial commissions, private collections, and fine art. One of the most respected and sought after visual storytellers in the […]

  ARTIST STATEMENT Italian Light by Douglas R. Gilbert Light is essential to the photographer’s art, revealing the world in ever-changing configurations. Light draws the forms on the film and sets the shadows dancing in the frame. This dance of light and shadow, both physical and compositional elements, defines space and creates moving, changing environments. […]

Artist Statement: Collectively, the images in this show become the symbolic mark of our monumental achievements as well as our constructive and destructive play.

The images may be of some of the most recognizable objects carried in, lost, discarded and forgotten on the beach. As we continue to dig and dig and build and build, we uncover […]

In my ongoing project, Movement, I strive to give visible shape to the relationship between my own concrete physical movement in the production phase and the established environment or familiar sites chosen as chosen content. By layering multiple exposures I wish to generate engaging interpretations of iconic structures and landscape sceneries. Fragmented, draped and distorted […]

A glimpse through the picture window, into the Cycle of Life, of those living on the borders of the South China Sea. “There’s a Circle in our lives, that keeps us going round, and with every revolution, there is something to be found. It’s the essence of the moment, it’s the understanding why, it’s the […]

The photographs in my “Darker Than Blue” collection represent moments I was fortunate enough to experience. When I look at them, they feel like a time machine, a lucid dream, carrying every sensation and nuance—hyperrealistic contrast only my Leica Monochrom can capture.     The title “Darker Than Blue” references a 1970 Curtis Mayfield lyric […]

Frank Hallam Day is a fine art photographer based in Washington DC. He was the winner of the prestigious 2012 Leica Oscar Barnack Prize as well as the Bader Prize in 2006, and numerous other awards, commissions and grants. His work has been widely exhibited within the United States and abroad, and has been collected […]

Andy Summers rose to fame in the early 1980’s as the guitarist with the multi-million record selling rock band The Police. The Police were the number one band of the time and dominated the music scene and the media in the eighties with several number albums and singles including Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, Don’t […]

Mark de Paola is a director and fine art photographer based in New York City whose work is in the fashion and beauty sector in both still and motion pictures. De Paola has shot countless campaigns including Gucci, Brioni, and MAC Cosmetics as well as editorials and covers for various publications including Vogue Spain, Vogue […]

“Johnson’s creative footprint has been instrumental in shaping not just Patagonia’s brand vision, but adventure culture as well”. -Esquire Magazine Jeff Johnson grew up in Danville, California, and moved to Hawaii when he turned 18. He lived on the North Shore of Oahu for fifteen years where he traveled extensively; writing and taking photographs. His […]

Anthony Friedkin’s photography has been recognized internationally. His work is included in the Permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the George Eastman House in Rochester. His photographs have been published in Japan, Russia, Europe and many Fine […]

Tanya Alexis Tanya Alexis’ start in photography came first though the example of her father, an avid amateur photographer. Then on her 13th birthday, he gave her a Minolta x700. Alexis recalls, “I can still remember sitting on my parent’s bedroom floor surrounded by boxes for my new camera, lenses, and camera bag. I would use […]

Artist Line up Anthony Acosta, Ray Barbee, Joe Brook, Thomas Campbell, Jerry Hsu, Jon Humphries, Greg Hunt, Atiba Jefferson, Dennis McGrath, Fred Mortagne, Arto Saari, Ed Templeton, Tobin Yelland.   Anthony Acosta Anthony Acosta is a professional skateboard photographer from the greater Los Angeles area. His work has been featured in magazines worldwide throughout his […]

ARTIST STATEMENT The Show, Rock, Parchment, Scissors, at the Leica gallery Los Angeles, marks the first official exhibition of my photographic work as a visual artist. Shooting for decades, using multiple mediums including film, Polaroid (on both vintage Land Cameras and SX70), Super 8, and digital, I have filed the work away, and opted for showing my […]

Bio With a background in cinematography (having lensed the international multi-award-winning “Face to Face” for director Michael Rymer), Dennys has for the past 13 years also pursued his passion as a professional photographer. Serving a staggering array of clients from major motion pictures, television, magazines and musicians, Dennys is now permanently based in Los Angeles […]

ARTIST STATEMENT Cuba Black and White In 1999 at age 25, American Photographer Anna Mia Davidson, despite the embargo, set out on a personal journey with her camera to capture the isolated Island Nation Cuba through her own eyes. Cuba was just beginning to heal from the “Special Period” after Russia pulled it’s financial support […]

Nathan Benn embraced color photography before it was considered an acceptable medium for serious documentary expression; he synthesized the intentions of post-World War progressive photo-reportage with modernist aesthetics. The National Geographic Society photographic division recruited Benn, a native of South Florida, immediately upon his 1972 graduation from the University of Miami. Three hundred of his […]

Till Brönner has become Germany´s most successful Jazz musician in history. Although considered as „trumpet virtuoso“ his exceptional sensitivity for sound and melody next to his occasional singing brought him the reputation of being the “German Chet Baker”. Till stems from a family of musicians; after a well-protected childhood, he enjoyed a classical education followed […]

The more our world is viewed through today’s ubiquitous digital lens and small screens the more narrowed the perspective.  The true magnitude of the cities in which we live, work and play can only be seen through a much broader and larger expression.  This is the mission of photographer Al Satterwhite in his latest focus, […]

UNDULATIONS With this body of work, I turn my back on the city and aim my camera towards the wilderness of Santa Monica Bay. I depart my studio when I see exceptional light, cross the human traffic and clutter of Ocean Front Walk and move through the sand to the surging surf and migrating birds. […]

Jesse’s professional photography career has been noticeably diverse. From solo exhibitions such as the contemplative Drive series, to the boldly graphic, non-contextual Drum Circle project, which has recently been published by Nazraeli Press.  Diamond’s assignment work stretches from the Harper-Collins A Day in the Life documentary (photos from which were featured on NBC’s Dateline), to […]

Graphic design informs my approach as a photographer in advertising campaigns, fashion editorials, portraiture, travel, the music industry and architecture. My visual language is influenced by my years as a graphic designer and I maintain a playful and creative intent on all my projects. My goal is to create a beautiful image that serves a […]

Regarded as one of the preeminent rock musicians of our time, Lenny Kravitz has transcended genre, style, race, and class into a 25-year musical career — one which revels in the rich influences of ’60s and ’70s soul, rock, and funk. His talents as a writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist have resonated through nine studio albums […]

From MONO: Ralph Gibson was very critical of digital photography until he held a Leica M Monochrom in his hands. Then he began using on to play with shadows – on street corners, on women’s bodies, and in the studio. In January he celebrated his 75th birthday, and also started a whole new chapter as […]

Scott Tansey has been taking photographs for over 40 years. He has been highlighted on the Leica blog and has exhibited recently at gB Gallery, Bergamot Station and other LA galleries. In addition, his photographs have been published in Audubon Magazine and Consumer Reports. His panoramic format has been his preferred imagery of choice. This […]

Peter Turnley, a prolific and award winning photojournalist, has also continually photographed the life of Paris, his adopted home. His tender, humorous, and sensual view of Paris, offers distinct contrast to the stark realities depicted in his photojournalism. He has photographed extensively the life of Paris these past forty years and is one of the […]

Semetko’s photographs capture the “authentic human experience,” by featuring the absurd and ironic within daily life. His exhibition includes iconic images from his highly popular “UNPOSED” series, AMERICA, a project that spans America’s local towns and back roads catching the ridiculous and the offbeat.

While renowned for her rich photographic career including celebrity portraits, magazine covers, movie posters and advertising campaigns, additionally EJ Camp has created extraordinary fine art landscape images.  Leica Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present Camp’s exquisite large-scale color photographs entitled “Sea.” EJ Camp will give an artist talk at 4 pm on Saturday, January […]

Andy Summers is largely known as the lead guitar player from the celebrated rock band, The Police.   What isn’t common knowledge is that when he wasn’t on stage performing for stadiums full of fans, he and his camera were documenting life on the road with The Police and the cities where touring led the band. […]

Photographer and film producer Yariv Milchan grew up with Hollywood for his backyard, surrounded by the magic and wonder of the filmmaking world and its beautiful movie star inhabitants. Yariv’s photographs always share a depth and beauty, whether he focuses his lens on the stunning California landscape or the sinuous curvature of a woman’s back. […]

Mary Ellen Mark’s photographs are renowned the world over and span the genres of NY Street photography, photojournalism and portraiture. Her main interest has always been social issues that this career survey of 50 iconic gelatin silver prints embodies. The Leica Gallery Los Angeles exhibition will present prints from her NY street images and iconic “Indian […]

Seal, a self proclaimed “photography geek,” and ambassador for Leica, views his photographic practice as a means of “connecting” to people and “stopping time.” His favorite subjects are people and portraiture. Seal has been a loyal Leica Camera collector for 25 years. He started shooting 35mm on the original M3, and now uses a range […]