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Euronews Culture spoke with Lisa Leone, a photographer and filmmaker, who began her career shooting for some of the most influential names in hip-hop. Not many can claim...
home. | Lisa Leone. work. SEE ARCHIVED PROJECTS. about. My love for images began when I was very young, developing my first 8x10 photographs in my uncle’s makeshift darkroom. Seeing those images appear before my eight-year-old eyes? That, to me, was magic.
Personal Profile. Bronx born Lisa Leone began her career as a photographer shooting musicians Moby, Lauryn Hill and Maxwell, as well as personalities like Debi Mazar and Spike Lee. She worked for British Vogue and VIBE where she was a contributing photographer and columnist.
A New York B-girl turned photographer, Lisa Leone was privy to the rise of hip hop’s biggest names in the 90s as she watched the wave of hip hop swell from the streets of LA and NYC and crash onto the world stage.
Euronews Culture spoke with Lisa Leone, a photographer and filmmaker, who began her career shooting for some of the most influential names in hip-hop. Read full article
Born in the Bronx and raised throughout New York City, Lisa Leone has been surrounded by hip-hop culture for virtually her entire life. By the late eighties, as a widely published photographer, she was in a unique position to capture a behind the-scenes perspective on the spirit of collaboration that fueled hip-hop’s early artistic triumphs.
Euronews Culture spoke with Lisa Leone, a photographer and filmmaker, who began her career shooting for some of the most influential names in hip-hop. Not many can claim they were in the studio for the recording sessions of Nas' landmark 1994 album, 'Illmatic'.
