Mobile Photography and Art – Rest in Paradise – Leor Levine
It is with deep sadness that I share with you that we have lost another talented artist among us, Leor Levine was a friend and member of many of our online FB groups and was known on Instagram as mastaprint8. There’s a reason for that, Levine was a masterprinter by vocation. As his dear friend Masha Mitkov expressed ‘[he] shied away from shameless self promotion in favor of technical mastery and artistic perfection. With him dies an encyclopedia of knowledge many of his students have tried to osmote. You could ask him any question about the darkroom, give him any film (shot at any speed), any developer (at any dilution), and any paper and developing technique, and he could give you the answer off the top of his head for developing times, or any other variables. Calculating chemical reactions in his head from a summation of trial and errors, he had an impeccable memory for proportions of matter. He understood how light worked in a way that any other human I know has yet to. He taught at Art Center in Pasadena for many years, and continued mentoring students well after his retirement’. To read more about him, please go to Masha Mitkov’s facebook page here.
I have created a video, showcasing what he saw, it’s a short memoir of not only his photography, but of his thoughts, rest in paradise dear Leor, until we meet…
Video Showcase
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
One Comment
Dan Conner
I’m terribly sorry to hear of Leor’s passing. I met him in 1975 at Henry’s Camera on 8th Street in L.A. where we both worked. A more gentle soul you could not find; a more knowledgeable darkroom mind does not exist.
If someone could contact me through email and inform me of his last years and how his family is situated with this terrible loss it would be appreciated.
RIP my friend.
Dan Conner