b. 1990
Joshua Leon is a writer, poet, and visual artist based in London. In 2014 he received his BA in Photography from the University of the Arts, London, before completing his MA in Photography in 2017 from the Royal College of Art, where he received his Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities in 2024.
Leon works through a combination of private, collaborative and intimate gestures using reading, listening, hosting, the conversation, and the presentation of objects to explore the subject of lament. His text-led practice draws on Jewish history and fuses memoir with historical research.
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The Exchange: Abbas Zahedi and Joshua Leon. “We grew up in west London in the ‘90s. There was an energy that doesn’t exist anymore”
