Marc Ohrem-Leclef

#Analog heaven! Preparations for my next trip to India are underway, including the sleepless nights and long hours preparing a journey to Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh .... and my first Mumbai Pride! #research research research ! 💪🏽📸🌈 #ishootfilm #queerartist #intersectionality #samelove #nonbinary #india 🎬 📸 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #kodakalaris #queerartist #gaydesi #mumbaipride2020 #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #120film #visualart #filmphotography #queerhistory #documentaryphotography #photobook (at Fort Greene, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7tC5jvFhXg/?igshid=1eyx4ieywbzzv

I hope that the many voices who spoke to me about love across classes and religions will not be deterred by the current politics ... Artist Book made for the exhibition titled 'Zameen Asmaan Ka Farq' at Photo Is:Rael (Tel Aviv, 2019) Zameen Asmaan Ka Farq ('As far Apart as the Earth Is from the Sky') is an Urdu/Hindi synonym that was spoken during a conversation I recorded in 2018 in Northern India. Hardcover, 122 pages, including 54 texts, 32 photographs. ❤️🌈 #artistbook #caa #nrc #dostana #intersectionality #samelove #brotherhood #natpu #india 🎬 📸 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerartist #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #120film #visualart #filmphotography #contax645 #documentaryphotography #photobook (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7TVkZ8lQNv/?igshid=ub0rbotju4dx

Into 2020 together on a ride with #retro MetroNorth ... wishing you all a happy peaceful year ahead. Onwards! 🚀 ❤️🌈 #happynewyear2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerartist #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #120film #visualart #filmphotography #documentaryphotography #metronorth #traintravel https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vfsMul-So/?igshid=3f3xiuq6a4cx

‘Arjun clasped Vijay’s hand at the busy bus stand in Trivandrum’, Kerala 2019. With this image I made earlier this year in southern India I send you all Love and Heartfelt wishes for a peaceful holiday season. May the new decade remind us of what connects us rather than make us get stuck on our differences ... at home and abroad. ❤️🌈 #dostana #intersectionality #samelove #brotherhood #published #natpu #india 🎬 📸 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerartist #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #120film #visualart #filmphotography #contax645 #documentaryphotography #photobook (at Trivandrum, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6gvEYWlr77/?igshid=d1d9h8c4tp2f

Very excited to be with @dadika at @photois.rael tonight to talk about my work and !!! participate in the ceremony to announce this year’s winner of the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography which brought me here this year, to a fantastic group of fellow artists and the lovely team curating it all! Tomorrow evening I’ll hold a Gallery Talk, if you happen to be near and can join me. 🙏🏽📸🌈 #photoisrael #meitaraward #televisioninterview #exhibition #section377 #telavivartist #opening #samelove #india 🎬 📸 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerartist #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #visualart #documentaryphotography #photobook #queerindia #vernissage (at Tel Aviv, Israel) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5fWS_EFIum/?igshid=16354l77p712v

#ontheair ! Press Day was an exciting hustle, including my first television studio interview @kan_israel , discussing my work shown @photois.rael israel with the wonderful Moav Vardi ! .... Thanks to Moav Vardi, and @photois.rael for setting it up! 🙏🏽📸🌈 #photoisrael #tv #televisioninterview #exhibition #section377 #telavivartist #opening #samelove #india 🎬 📸 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerartist #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #visualart #documentaryphotography #photobook #queerindia #vernissage (at Tel Aviv) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5cTyL3lKPE/?igshid=18q87seb94gp

' I will not lead you, nor will I follow. I just want to walk beside you in our battle for equality' ... A sign commemorating the activism of Famila who called Bangalore home. Last year I had the privilege of joining a memorial on Trans Remembrance Day there, with a crowd of dedicated people-activists and ‘regular’ citizens-some of whom have become cherished collaborators and friends. 🌈 #samelove #intersectionality #translives #queerlives #natpu #india #bangalore #transremembranceday . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerartist #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #120film #visualart #filmphotography #contax645 #documentaryphotography (at Bangalore, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5GbX6IlVfw/?igshid=18yk1llzinbp1

It was so fun to host students of @purchaseartdesign for a really substantial studio-visit with @nandita.raman last week and share about my process, successes and failures! They had to (mostly) sit on the floor and only got minimal Halloween candy treats but they stuck with it with such zest and interest for three hours! A full studio is a happy Studio! ❤️🙏🏽🌈 #studiovist #artistlife #queerartist #students #teaching #india #brazil #olympicfavela #indianmen 🎬 📸 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerartist #dosti #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #120film #visualart #filmphotography #contax645 #documentaryphotography #photobook #artistarchive #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn Navy Yard) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4HhKZ5l9de/?igshid=1ldqo2cunb2jm

Sometime times just stops ... when we were standing outside during a cold winter night @macdowellcolony and talked for a long time (with Koji) although it’s kind of too cold but we were just not finished yet talking ... all the while snow falling on our winter coats and getting caught in our eye lashes ... one of the many moments I cherished with Haruko. Yesterday time stopped again ... shine bright Haruko and rest easy. I’m sad we won’t be laughing together again for a moment ... sending love and light to all you touched and who grapple how to go on without you. 🖤 ⛄️ . . . #friendship #macdowellfamily #restinpower @kissoftheworld https://www.instagram.com/p/B37u7bOFi4a/?igshid=12op2cpcqzvqn

When I go quiet it’s because I’ve been in my studio retouching work for three upcoming shows @pridephotoaward @offbratislava and @photois.rael - also been laughing and crying as I’ve had time to read many interviews that have finally been transcribed and translated in the past months. The audio/text element has become so important and is enriching the work beautifully. Me and my fab intern Charlie have thus reworked the audio archive ... keeping this #artistarchive organized! Not an easy task haha. 📸🎞🌈 #inthestudio #audioarchive #analogphotography #intersectionality #samelove #natpu #india #indianmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #queerartist #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #120film #visualart #filmphotography #contax645 #documentaryphotography #photobook (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3b_idPlxpo/?igshid=1309zwsbjozfo

A nice late-summer surprise: a few of my works printed in a beautiful volume of @lensculture ’s “Best Of LensCulture’s Discoveries 2018” arriving at home ... I have been reading reading reading the long and short interviews I have been making in India in the last year and a half and am excited to share new photographs and texts from the series soon in Amsterdam, Bratislava and Tel Aviv! Making this work has taught me so much on letting go of my notions and learning about and embracing the unknown, and finding its beauty. I hope I’ll be able to pass exactly that on with the work ... Blessed to be able to continue this journey which has become so enriching and beautiful, thanks to my many collaborators across India and my friends at home ! 🌈 #inprint #intersectionality #samelove #lensculture #published #natpu #india #indianmen 🎬 📸 @offbratislava @pridephotoaward @photois.rael . . . . . . . . . . . . . #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerartist #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #research #120film #visualart #filmphotography #contax645 #documentaryphotography #photobook (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Bx55LlyQ8/?igshid=efld8jkg3dc0

#kashmir on my mind ... digging through my archive, I came across this set postcards from the 80ies that I found in Raj’s dad’s garage. - - It is a very different situation, but I can’t help being reminded of hearing collaborators and friends in India speak about the deep deep wounds inflicted on their families during the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and it pains me to consider the fears of families and friends in Jammu and Kashmir in the past days. - Here at home and in so many other places the foundations of our democracies and human rights are under attack ... It makes me choke up these days. - And yet, in spite of it all: Belated Eid Mubarak to my Muslim friends! 💔🇮🇳 #eid #EidAdhaMubarak #JammuKashmir #Article370 #indianindependenceday #independencedayindia #artistarchive #memory #democracy #representation - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #intersectionality #marcleclef #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #queerart #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #dosti #documentaryphotography #artcollector #visualart #filmphotography #documentaryphotography #queerartist #madeinIndia (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1JMJ93FEKs/?igshid=1nl5yz5951w97

#kashmir on my mind ... digging through my archive, I came across this set postcards from the 80ies that I found in Raj’s dad’s garage. - - It is a very different situation, but I can’t help being reminded of hearing collaborators and friends in India speak about the deep deep wounds inflicted on their families during the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and it pains me to consider the fears of families and friends in Jammu and Kashmir in the past days. - Here at home and in so many other places the foundations of our democracies and human rights are under attack ... It makes me choke up these days. - And yet, in spite of it all: Belated Eid Mubarak to my Muslim friends! 💔🇮🇳 #eid #EidAdhaMubarak #JammuKashmir #Article370 #indianindependenceday #independencedayindia #artistarchive #memory #democracy #representation - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #intersectionality #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerart #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #visualart #filmphotography #documentaryphotography #queerartist #madeinIndia (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1JL_obF_LF/?igshid=11i6ivjj4t9um

#kashmir on my mind ... digging through my archive, I came across this set postcards from the 80ies that I found in Raj’s dad’s garage. - - It is a very different situation, but I can’t help being reminded of hearing collaborators and friends in India speak about the deep deep wounds inflicted on their families during the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and it pains me to consider the fears of families and friends in Jammu and Kashmir in the past days. - Here at home and in so many other places the foundations of our democracies and human rights are under attack ... It makes me choke up these days. - And yet, in spite of it all: Belated Eid Mubarak to my Muslim friends! 💔🇮🇳 #eid #EidAdhaMubarak #JammuKashmir #Article370 #indianindependenceday #independencedayindia #artistarchive #memory #democracy #representation - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #intersectionality #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #queerart #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerart #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #visualart #filmphotography #documentaryphotography #pridemonth #published #queerartist #madeinIndia (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1JL2KpF9FG/?igshid=j1qbfch9i2qy

Last day to see these three babies from my ongoing work in India in 'Criminaliz This!', a group show curated by Lorenzo Triburgo and Mary Gagler, at Amos Eno Gallery in Bushwick! In case you cannot make it today (aka the Rockaways are possibly more appealing, I know), come see them at my studio in Clinton Hill sometime! The doors are always open! - Thanks @osmancan for catching up on the work at the Gallery last week ❤️ - #amosenogallery #exhibition #opening #vernissage #artgallery #brooklyn @lorenzotriburgo @marygagler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #intersectionality #marcleclef #artistlife #artist #curator #portraitphotography #fineartphotography #queerart #contemporaryphotography #newphotography #analog #queerart #gay #dosti #gaydesi #documentaryphotography #artcollector #visualart #filmphotography #documentaryphotography #pridemonth #published #queerartist #madeinIndia #brooklynexhibition https://www.instagram.com/p/B0YR-SJFlru/?igshid=140jzwp5nplae