New York Portrait Photographer

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Kissy Wishes © Leland Bobbé

Projekt30 The Sex Issue: Volume 5 features artworks which comment upon gender and sex in our society. Included is Kissy Wishes, one from my series of Neo-Burlesque performers.

Jenny C’est Quoi

Jenny C'est Quoi © Leland Bobbé

Jenny C’est Quoi is the co-producer of Brooklyn’s Indie Girls Burlesque (where the audience suggests the theme!) and founding member of Storybook Burlesque.

Jenny C'est Quoi © Leland Bobbé

Chris Cross

Chris Cross © Leland Bobbé

Chris Cross is a British Stand-Up Comedy Magician, Contortionist & Escapologist. He came to New York to host a burlesque show, was given my name, and we arranged a shoot. Chris is on tour across the UK starting this month, June 2010, and will play at Glastonbury in July.

aCurator Magazine Features Women of 5th Avenue

From 'Women of 5th Ave' © Leland Bobbé

Newly-launched aCurator magazine featured my series of women ‘of a certain age’ photographed on upper 5th Avenue in Manhattan, in the first issue. The series looks great in the full screen format and apparently the readers loved it; London’s glossy magazine The Big Issue, a publication distributed by and for the homeless, featured my series in their review of aCurator.

Graphis Photography Award

World Famous *Bob* © Leland Bobbé

I’m very proud to announce that I’ve won a gold award in the Graphis Photography Annual for 2010. World Famous *Bob* is taken from a series of my Neo-Burlesque portraits.

Photography Masters Cup

Texas Cop © Leland Bobbé

‘Texas Cop’ was honored in the third Photography Masters Cup, an international award for color photography. I found him at a fast food joint while on a Texas road trip. He was a pretty intimidating character but I mustered up the courage to ask him if I could take his portrait. To my surprise he said yes.

International Aperture Awards

Dottie Lux © Leland Bobbé

The International Aperture Awards are “the world’s most prestigious international online photography competition” so I am pleased that 3 of my Neo-Burlesque images won bronze.

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x.to Image Awards 2009

Victoria Privates © Leland Bobbé

My Neo-Burlesque project won a 2009 x.to Nude Image Award in the Body Art category and was shown at Farmani Gallery. Victoria Privates is just one from my series.

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Dirty Martini © Leland Bobbé

Projekt30 The Sex Issue: Volume 4 features artworks which comment upon gender and sex in our society. Included is Dirty Martini, one from my series of Neo-Burlesque performers.