Leleo Lopes

Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro and living in Minas Gerais since I was 11 years old. In
2007, on a walk through the city with a friend he pointed to a scene and said "look what
a beautiful picture", since then I started to create photographs with scenes I saw on the
way. I say that I started photographing without even having any equipment, wherever I
went I couldn't stop, since that walk, to see it in pictures. In 2008 I bought my first
camera and started experimenting with recording in the region of Ouro Preto and
Mariana.
In the following years I dedicated all the time I could to photograph places where I
passed, Ouro Preto, Recife, Salvador, Fortaleza, Amazonia, Belo Horizonte, India, Italy,
France, Germany, Czech Republic, Cuba, Argentina and Uruguay. In this constant act of
observing and recording I became less distracted by the paths around me and began to
understand myself and make more comprehensible the senses and sensations that
involve everything I do.
Also in the city of Ouro Preto I was director of photography for 7 years at a local TV,
this allowed me to keep a close eye even when it was not possible to be on the street
photographing. I learned in all this time producing images that the composition is a cut
of a mov...

t was a great opportunity to have studied Museology at the Federal University of Ouro Preto and to have the possibility to exercise my passion for photography in such a rich scenery of history and beauty. I was able to use the city as a laboratory, where I practiced my gaze every day and engaged with the sensitivity of photography