About

I create, because I’ve been created and would violate my deepest needs and convictions if I don’t.

No I’m not addicted to photography. Addict makes reference to something that is external that you willingly let latch onto you, that controls you.
Photography is an expression of who I am – I dont know or understand anything else apart from creating visually. Its like being left-handed – its coded into who I am, not an external thing I got addicted to.
Either you make images, or you like images.  I create, come hell or high water, come PC or Mac, come camera or pen & paper. Its how I speak best.

I am the kamera-mamba-ninja, the light wrangler, a photon cowboy. I tame wild ideas, break concepts in and saddle them up.
I translate thoughts into visuals. I make eye-poetry.

An image is said to speak 1000 words.
I can make them speak the right 1000 for you.
I speak Pic powerfully.

I address your needs with my images.
This is the Art of Fine Photography.
This is me at your service.

Please view my portfolio,  blog or contact me about quotes and queries.

Ok, so if that isn’t enough reading yet, here is the long version:

I go by many nameshz, to quote the Boosh, but you can call my “Hey you with the camera!”, or Leon for short.

Unknowingly, my career path started at age 4 while inventing fantastical gadets, machines and processes to improve our everyday lives. Along the way I acquired problem solving skills, saw cutting skills, Lego skills, get-beaten-up-at-school-for-being-different skills, stage lighting skills and teaching skills to name but a few.
I took a detour through an engineering faculty before committing myself to studying Fine Art and came out the other side with a degree and very deep love for making images, more significantly, speaking the language of images through a lens.

Now I find myself reveling in both the foundation of technical details and language of artistic expression. This applies to all mediums in the performing and visual arts, but to me photography is the perfect place where science meets creativity. Giving an expression to technicalities in a way that communicates, that inspires – thats what gets me out of bed in the morning.

I live and work as a freelancer in Cape Town, although I have many clients in other parts of our fantastic country and the rest of the globe – When I get the opportunity to combine work and travel I’m a happy man. Please take some time to view my commercial and creative portfolios, take a read through my blog or contact me about quotes and queries.

At the end of the day, what it all boils down to is that I dislike clichés, I am unique like everyone else.