Nowhere to Call Home – Photographs and Stories of the Homeless

24 March, 2018 | 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

BOOK SALE / SIGNING BY TEENAGE ‘PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE HOMELESS’

This event will take place in the bookstore of Toronto’s prestigious Stephen Bulger Gallery located at 1356 Dundas St. West.

Leah will be selling and signing her recently released book Nowhere to Call Home—Photographs and Stories of the Homeless, Volume One. All of the profits from the sale of this book are going to the Salvation Army Barrie Bayside Mission Centre.

Leah is a 17-year-old, grade 12 student from Collingwood, ON. For the past three years she, along with her dad, have been travelling to cities throughout North America photographing and interviewing people experiencing homelessness. Her goal is to change the general public’s perception of this forgotten group, for so often they are seen as sub-human. With the publication of Leah’s book, she has attracted international attention. In recent months she has been interviewed by the BBC, Toronto Star, CBC’S ‘The Goods’, Victoria Life, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, CBC’s ‘The National’, CTV’s ‘Your Morning’, as well as newspapers in Italy and the Netherlands, to name a few. When Leah was just 14-years-old the National Geographic photographer and Fellow, Joel Sartore, said of Leah, “If she sticks with it, I think she’s well on her way to becoming not just a good photographer, but a great photographer. And I’m not kidding.” The Hamilton-based photographer and videographer, Alex Zafer, has called Leah a “mega talent”. Jeoffrey Jordan, a commercial photographer who works out of Toronto, says of Leah that she is an “emerging superstar”.

All images from volume one of Leah’s book

For more information contact Tim at: tdenbok3victory@gmail.com or 705-444-5516

Photo by Adrian Vitt