Series 01
Backlit
Leaves read against the low sun and photographed until the green turns to stained glass. The simplest pictures I make, and the hardest to get right.
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Photographer
Amsterdam & the North Sea coast
Index — MMXXVI
Light, leaves, and me.
Leslie Løvkind makes quiet photographs of leaves and the light that moves through them — a slow record of ordinary green, kept still long enough to be looked at properly.
Fig. 00 — Backlight study
4×5 film · Vondelpark
I photograph leaves because they keep the most honest record of light — a morning, a season, one particular hour by the water.
Leslie Løvkind
INTERVIEW FOR "UNSEEN AMSTERDAM", 2026
01 — Selected work
A field guide to texture in the light.
Single frames, chosen across six years of walking the same parks, dunes and greenhouses at the hours when the sun softens.
02 — Series
Three ways of looking.
Ongoing bodies of work, each one a different argument about the same subject: how light decides to pass through a leaf.
Series 02
After Rain
The hour after weather, when every surface is still holding a second, smaller sky. Made entirely along the dunes between Zandvoort and Bergen.
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Series 03
Glasshouse
Cultivated light. Studies made inside the botanical greenhouses of Amsterdam, where the weather is decided by hand and the leaves never see a true horizon.
View the seriesGreen is only the colour of light that decided to stay a while.
02 — About
Trained to look at plants. Stayed for the light.
Leslie Løvkind (b. 1989) is a photographer working between Amsterdam and the North Sea coast. She studied botany before turning to the camera, and still approaches a leaf the way a botanist would — patiently, and with a suspicion that the interesting part is happening just out of sight.
Her work is made almost entirely on large-format film, in natural light, within walking distance of water. Recent pictures have been shown at Foam Editions and Unseen Amsterdam, and her prints are held in private collections across the Netherlands, Norway and the UK.
She prints every edition by hand, and prefers to deliver them in person whenever the distance allows.
BasedAmsterdam, NL
Working since2014
Medium4×5 film
03 — Approach
How the pictures get made.
i.
Natural light only
No flash, no fill, no studio. The whole subject of the work is the light that happens to be there, so adding any of my own would defeat the point.
ii.
Shot on 4×5 film
A slow camera makes for slow looking. A sheet of film and a dark cloth force me to wait for the leaf and the hour to agree with each other.
iii.
Printed by hand
Every edition is printed and finished by hand on cotton rag paper, signed, numbered, and checked against the negative one last time before it leaves.
04 — Prints
Take a little light home.
Each photograph is available as a hand-printed, archival edition on cotton rag paper. Prices below are a starting point; larger sizes are made to order.
Backlit Maple, no. 4from €280
Archival pigment · edition of 12
After Rain, oakfrom €280
Archival pigment · edition of 12
Dune Grass, last lightfrom €340
Archival pigment · edition of 8
05 — Index
Where the work has been.
Exhibitions
2025ChlorophyllFoam Editions, Amsterdam — solo
2024Green HourNorthern Light Gallery, Bergen — solo
2023Unseen AmsterdamWestergasfabriek — group
2022Still GrowingHuis Marseille, Amsterdam — group
Selected press & collections
2025Foam Magazine, issue 64Portfolio & interview
2024British Journal of PhotographyOnes to Watch
2026Private collectionsNL · NO · UK
2026Rijksmuseum print roomTwo works, acquired 2024
Let's make
something quiet.
hello@leslielovkind.com
For prints, commissions, exhibitions and the occasional slow walk with a camera.