Lillith Leda
Lillith Leda began her career in front of the lens as an outrageous art and pin-up model. Provocative and beautiful in front of the camera, Leda soon moved her creativity to the other side of the lens.
Leda celebrates the goddess in every woman with photographs that challenge her audience. Without formal training in photography, Leda’s elegant, stylish and bold images are thought provoking and striking. Appealing to a more intellectual viewer, her work contains strong narratives told through marvellous human landscapes.
Using mostly natural and available light and exquisite models, Leda’s photos convey that you need more than eyes to see; you need vision. She captures moments in time saturated with emotion and intensity and has the ability to see the extraordinary in commonplace circumstances.
What makes her work stand out, is her ability to expose the bare emotion of her subjects in a single and intimate shot. In addition, Leda does all the styling, make-up and art direction on her shoots and so takes part in every aspect of the creative process. In her own words: “The final result is a journey for me, as every image I take tells its own story and dictates its own tones and narrative.”
Leda’s skill as photographer and stylist has seen her work featured in South African magazines, including FHM and leading pop culture magazine onesmallseed, and she has photographed numerous local bands, including the popular Prime Circle and internationally acclaimed Chris Cornell.
Go to www.lillithleda.com or call + 27 82 765 8495 for more.
Story by Amalanka 2010
Pix © Lillith Leda
2 Comments
rayval commented:
great story
Daniel commented:
Well written Amalanka… so completely spot on.