Hi, my name is Leo.

I am multimedia worker, street photographer, social practitioner and video editor based in Brooklyn, NYC.

I am a multimedia worker, street photographer, social practitioner, and video editor based in Brooklyn, NYC. Born in Uruguay and raised in Puerto Rico, I have lived in New York City since 2017, after several years in Boston.

As a multimedia worker, I covered the Haitian diaspora in New York City for The Haitian Times, a NYC-based online publication. At the Times, I was part of a team that reported on the 15,000 Haitians who arrived at the U.S. border in September 2021. Our stories focused on Haitian asylum seekers who were allowed to enter the U.S. via Del Rio, Texas. In addition, I spent a month in Tapachula, Mexico, reporting on the thousands of Haitians who had migrated from Chile and Brazil and were waiting there for transit documents to continue their journey north.

As a street photographer in New York City, I am interested in moments of quietness from the city dwellers in a city perceived as hectic, but also moments of tenderness and moments that portray the city beyond the traditional images of “craziness” and “grittiness” that, for some, have defined NYC since the 1980s.

I have worked as a social practitioner supporting people with mental health illnesses on their recovery journeys. As a supporter of the Clubhouse model for psychosocial rehabilitation, I am interested in the possibilities of media work for personal change.

In addition to taking photos, I enjoy films. Among my favorites are Werckmeister Harmonies, La Chimera, Woman in the Dunes, and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring.

Besides media work, I am also a Vipassana meditator, bilingual in English and Spanish, and am currently learning Italian.

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