A twenty-something English Lit grad located in “Neverwhere, or occasionally London,” Emilie Rosson puckishly describes herself as a “photographer, writer, and incurable cynic, currently of the red-headed variety.” She continues in the jugular vein of British deadpan humor to list her primary interests as “reading, cultural criticism, videography, writing children’s stories, solving crimes with long-time [...]
John Lou Miles is a passionate young photographer who lives just south of L.A. and shoots with a Leica M8, X1 and Leica lenses ranging from 28-75mm. He is an engaging, emerging pro with a wry sense of humor and an astute eye for capturing the contrasts, ambiguities and strangeness of everyday life in the big [...]
Jamie Rose is the Director of Momenta Workshops. Leica Camera AG serves as a sponsor of their Nonprofit Project Series of workshops. Here Jaime shares a story from Momenta’s recent Project India Workshop. Most photographers are gear addicts. When someone launches a new generation of a camera or a new lens, we want to buy [...]
Robert Turi creates compelling photographs using an unlikely combination of an astute awareness of the emotional effects of lighting and style, and the technique of shooting spontaneously based on the images and feeling in his mind. He specializes in shooting fashion, swimwear, portraits, landscapes and automobiles, and in the course of his creative quest he [...]
An accomplished and intuitive artist with a camera, Robert Turi has shot fashion, swimwear, portraits, landscapes and automobiles, becoming an accidental pro in the course of his creative quest. He explains his journey as such, “I have been shooting passionately since June 2007, so while I don’t have 10 years of experience I like to [...]
Capturing movement in a picture is an insane paradox which most of us wouldn’t even try to crack. Not so for Max Malatesta. The 41-year-old actor takes on this challenge, relying on only one true companion: his Leica X1. Q: Max, first and foremost, tell us a bit about yourself and your job. A: Well, [...]
Kokyat Choong grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and after high school he attended interior design school, which may partially explain the strong sense of graphic design that characterizes all his work from sensual images of ballet rehearsals to strikingly abstract and surreal images created as a photographic homage to the renowned French artist Rene [...]
ENGLISH Sebastian Beck (46) is married to a Brazilian and lives in Munich as a newspaper editor. Photography has been his passion ever since his father presented him with a Voigtländer VSL1 35 years ago and his uncle adding a stack of old Leica magazines. After using Leica reflex cameras and a Focomat enlarger stored [...]
Edmond Terakopian has been a photojournalist since 1989. His first taste of Leica came during the same year when he borrowed his father’s friend’s Leica M3 along with 35mm and 50mm lenses to take on assignment when he started on his local newspaper. Amongst his awards are a World Press Photo award for Spot News [...]
We first came across the work of Kokyat Choong when he was named as one of the winners of the PHOTOBOOK NYC Photo Contest presented by PDN. The New York based photographer documented the acrobatics of a group of teenage boys jumping off the pier at Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn, images he had taken [...]
John Lou Miles lives just south of Los Angeles and currently works in TV, advertising and film as a consultant. A passionate Leica enthusiast poised between being a serious enthusiast and a pro, he wryly encapsulates his experience as “a life of misspent youth replaced by overachieving adulthood” and observes that “growing up in both [...]
The Leica Akademie has workshops available for photographers to participate in across the globe and is bringing lectures to the New York Photo Festival this year in addition to an M9 and X1 loan program and Scavenger Hunt! Have you ever wanted to test drive a Leica M9 or X1 camera? We invite participants of [...]
Born and raised in Bergen, Norway, Knut Skjærven once intended to become a lawyer but “in a state of existential despair” began specializing in philosophical aesthetics and soon developed a passionate interest in film and phenomenology. Shortly after earning an M.A. degree in film science at the University of Copenhagen he bought his first good [...]
Otto Schulze runs a full-time fine art wedding photography studio based out of Denver, Colorado. He gets to travel all over the world to document that special day in the lives of his clients. Otto does not manage to capture all the beautiful emotion, anticipation and expectation of each wedding day on his own, however. [...]
A talented young Jordanian photographer dedicated to covering the emerging Arab hip-hop scene, Nasser Kalaji acquired his first camera in October 2009. By August 2010 his incisive and moving urban images were already being featured and admired on Leica blogs. Nasser has recently formed a company, Immortal, with his dear friend and Mentor Laith Majali, [...]
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