She almost completed her third year of a four-year Bachelor of Photography program. Since the age of 13 she has been mentored by Joel Sartore, a National Geographic photographer and Fellow. For the past four years Leah has been traveling to cities throughout the world photographing the homeless and recording their stories. Leah is the author of three books: Nowhere to Call Home—Photographs and Sto
ries of People Experiencing Homelessness, Volumes One, Two, and Three. The third volume was published in 2019 by Austin Macauley Publishers in NYC. In the summer of 2017 CBC's 'The National' aired a documentary about Leah's photography and stories of people experiencing homelessness. Since then Leah’s work has attracted worldwide attention. In the fall of 2017 the BBC ran a story about her, as have newspapers in the United States and the Netherlands. In 2018 the Corriere della Sera, Italy’s largest daily, did a two-page spread about Leah. In an article in 2018 the Las Vegas’ Daily Chronicle, Buford Davis wrote, “[Leah’s] photographs are not great photographs for a teenager to have taken; they are great photographs and a teenager has taken them.” CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley recently aired a story about Leah. Leah has won high praise from her peers. The veteran Toronto photographer, Mike Jordan, wrote of Leah that she is an “emerging superstar.” Well known Hamilton-based street photographer, Alex Zafer, called her a “mega talent.”
Contact Leah: Email: [email protected]
