Rising Stars of Photography is proud to welcome Leslie Alsheimer as our newest member. Leslie's ability to combine her demanding professional career as a social worker and her growing gift as a photographer provides unique insight as well as a truly sensitive and thought-provoking body of work. Leslie's award winning photography inspires and moves her admirers. Her promise of even more insightful and creative imagery as she continues her international documentary work with non-profit social organizations will certainly place Leslie among tomorrow's photographic luminaries. Again, congratulations Leslie. We look forward to watching your star rise.
Be sure to explore Leslie's photographic vision on her web site.
Leslie Alsheimer
Vitals:
- Home Base: Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Website: http://www.lesliealsheimer.com
- Contact: leslie@lesliealsheimer.com
- Exhibits: "Visions of Africa: Group Exhibition and Readings", Santa Fe, NM, Group Exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography and SPE 2008, Group Exhibition, Underground Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2007
- Awards: 2 Honorable Mentions @ Lucie Awards International, 2nd place @ Willard Van Dyke Award, New Mexico Council on Photography, 2008, and NAPP Vincent Versace Award for Photographic Excellence
- Current Project: Project Forward Focus is a portfolio of images created in partnership with grassroots relief projects making a difference in people’s lives, serving rural villages throughout Uganda.
- Photographic Interests/Specialities: Black & White, social documentary
- Available for Assignment Photography: leslie@lesliealsheimer.com, 505-670-9898
I became interested in photography at the age of 12, when the Leadership program at Marina Middle School in San Francisco entrusted me with a Pentax K-1000 to document school activities for our year book. I went on to become the Photo Editor of the Annandale High School Year book, and kept active in my first chemical darkroom created in our family laundry room for years. Since then, a darkroom - whether chemical or digital - has always been part of my life.
Today, my photographic imagery is concerned with creating images that parallel and interconnect my work as a social worker and my vision of the human spirit. I am interested in the interpersonal connections that transcend race, class, politics and socio-economics—in moving beyond façade and surface to connect to the personal or metaphorical— giving voice to that which is often overlooked and unrecognized.
Through a forward and positive focus, I have been working on a long term body of work portraying the richness of life that accompanies the enduring human spirit; celebrating life, family, culture, community, and play through the joy, pain and love of everyday living.
Created in partnership with NGO’s and humanitarian relief projects around the world actively engaged in solution-oriented work, Project Forward Focus is a portfolio of images that celebrate what people are doing to create a better world by supporting, promoting and encouraging acts of connection, compassion and contribution—i.e. “works that matter”.
Leslie Alsheimer -- My photographic passion
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Leslie's sponsors:
Kay Harvey
Jamie Baldanado
Rising Stars Jurors' comments:
"Classic b/w documentary work in Africa, but also very well done and moving. She brings intense emotion to her work."
"Leslie's work is both moving and technically excellent. In many cases, her pictures tell a story of suffering, but often in the same frame, a glimpse of hope shines through. Her black and white images look outstanding, which shows that she has a great eye for the technical side of making and editing pictures."
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