Leland bobbe biography
Leland Bobbé is an American photographer known for commercial portraiture and for personal work capturing fringe elements of society.
After deciding to concentrate upon photography, Bobbé got a full-time job assisting Robert Farber, a fashion and fine art photographer, which he did for two years.!
A native New Yorker, Leland has been a professional photographer for over 35 years.
His work spans both the fine art and commercial worlds and has been shown in galleries and utilized by advertising agencies internationally. He first picked up a camera in his 20’s and began to photograph the gritty streets of New York City in the mid ’s.
Leland Bobbe was born circa , in New York, United States, to Richard Bobbe and Carol Bobbe.Eighteen of those images are now in the permanent collection at the Museum of the City of New York. He is also represented in the permanent collection at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
In addition to his commercial portrait work Leland devotes much of his time to shooting personal projects, most of which involve the people and sights of the city of New York.
His project titled Half-Drag that explored gender fluidity went viral and appeared on hundreds of websites in over thirty countries around the world. His award winning portraits of New York City Neo-Burlesque performers culminated in a three-month exhibit at the Museum of Sex.
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