LUZEROS

The Luzeros series was created by photographer Leandro Sanchez in the dark of an improvised studio in a garage in Los Angeles. These visuals are the result of days of experimentation, working late nights until capturing the magic desired: that emotion that reveals as true, that moment when light, timing, and the mythology collide to create uniqueness.

Leandro recouped objects from the beach, street, trees - recyclables and natural elements were accumulated to then start creating visuals and stories of numerous dream creatures and nightmare creatures. Many of the objects that appear in the final visual as pristine elements are oftentimes recouped materials that Leandro imagined as potential production design: the palm tree is repeated by combining light and timing, branches and plastics are as well repeated with flash lights in the dark.

Leandro has long used only himself and his wife Megan as his models on his artistic light photography - he explains that it is the only way he could achieve these works, sometimes toiling at 2AM while holding palm fronds as improved masks, and working in pitch darkness over cold ground - it is a work of loving patience and strength; a desire to create that drives him to pursue that magical moment over and over again, until after trying 40 times in various poses and combinations of light, finally "the one" image is captured.

Music, technique and passion are what you see as a result of a long deep dig into darkness, with only sculpted light to illuminate the way to a unique visual.