Leonardo March is a multimedia worker, street photographer, social practitioner and video editor based in Brooklyn, NYC. He was previously a photojournalist and graphic designer.
As a multimedia journalist he covered the Haitian diaspora in New York City for The Haitian Times, a NYC based online publication. At the Times he was part of a team that reported on the 15,000 Haitians who arrived at the US Border in September 2021. The stories focused on Haitian asylum seekers who were allowed to enter the US, via Del Rio, Texas. In addition, Leonardo spent a month in Tapachula, Mexico reporting on the thousands of Haitians who migrated from Chile and Brazil and had to wait in Tapachula, Mexico for transit documents to continue their journey north.
Leonardo is a supporter of the Clubhouse model for psychosocial rehabilitation and is interested in the possibilities of media work for personal change. In addition to taking photos, Leonardo enjoys artsy films. Among his favorites are "Werckmeister Harmonies", "La Chimera", "Woman in the Dunes", and "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring".
Besides media work, Leonardo is a Vipassana meditator, and is bilingual in English and Spanish. Currently learning Haitian Creole and Italian.