Luvia Lazo

Luvia Lazo (Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1990) is a Zapotec indigenous photographer. Her work documents the transformation of identity, generational gaps, grief, and the way in which human beings inhabit the spaces with reminiscent of our beliefs and culture. She was recipient from the Young Creators program by FONCA (National Fund for Culture and the Arts) in Mexico and winner of the inaugural Indigenous photograph 2021 award, awarded in the portfolio review of the Mirar Distinto 2023 festival. Her work has been part of group exhibitions and individuals in Mexico City, Veracruz, New York, Chicago, Barcelona, Mallorca, Oaxaca and Teotitlán del Valle and published in The new Yorker, Vogue USA, Vogue Mexico and LaTam, Hotbook, Pipe Wrench Magazine, AD Magazine Latam, Lazo has been part of the Casa Wabi Residency program in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is an active member of Women Photograph and Indigenous Photograph

Luvia Lazo es una fotografa zapoteca de Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca. La fotografía es su forma de retratar los mundos a los que pertenece. Su trabajo busca capturar y compartir la realidad desde la perspectiva de la mujer contemporánea, creando una constelación de imágenes a través del tiempo y espacio en Oaxaca, documentando las brechas generacionales y la transformación de la identidad a través del tiempo. Beneficiaría del programa de Jóvenes Creadores por el FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes) en México y ganadora del premio inaugural Indigenous Photograph 2021 por photoville y Leica.

Camille Farrah Lenain

Camille Farrah Lenain is a French-Algerian documentary and portrait photographer who grew up in Paris, studied Photography at l’ESA in Brussels and at ICP in New York City (virtual). She relocated to New Orleans in 2013, where she teaches Photography at Tulane University, and works on long-term projects with a focus on intimate portraiture, exploring the notions of stereotypes, collective memory, and plural identities.

Camille is a 2024 Leica Women Foto Project Awardee.

Her clients include: The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Marshall Project, The Washington Post Magazine, T Magazine, Sierra Magazine, ELLE Magazine, The Bitter Southerner, and Libération.

Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, including at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Arab World Institute, Festival Incadaques, Les Boutographies, and PhotoVogue Festival. She was previously an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center.

Stasia Schmidt

When I look through the viewfinder of my camera, I see potential to subvert expectations – real or contrived, societal or self-imposed. There’s a freedom in allowing my imagination to run untamed, knowing I can set up my camera and follow the creative spark to the trail it illuminates. Every shot has the potential to deepen what I know about myself and challenge how others perceive me or my subject. Boundaries of what’s expected dissolve, clichés fall away, and what remains is something altogether more vivid, more resonant, more provocative. Whether creating surreal self-portraits or capturing awe-inspiring vistas, my goal is to invite the viewer to that experience, and perhaps question the edges of their own expectations. I’m a photographer, an artist, a partner, a mother, a woman, always in search of the wild around me.

Leica Women Foto Project

The Leica Women Foto Project serves to empower the female perspective and its impact on today’s visual stories. We believe the shape of a story is reactive to the storyteller’s perspective, developing a narrative that too often is reflective of individual truths. The Leica Women Foto Project encourages diversity and inclusion in visual storytelling to amplify voices typically underrepresented in photography, discovering the breadth of shapes formed by a single story.​ Conceived in 2019, the initiative has evolved to offer cash awards and business opportunities and Leica equipment to serve the female perspective in the world of photography.