Fotografica Productions
FILM SHORT
FILM SCREENINGS 2020
El Museo del Barrio, New York City Sept 2018 - January 2019
Caribbean Cultural Center, NYC Summer 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Nov 2017 - February 2018
Los Angeles County Museum of Art June 2017 - October 2017
Smithsonian Museum of Art, Wash DC May 2017 - August 2017
El Museo del Barrio, NYC March 2014 - September 2014
BOOKS
PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICES
The Puerto Rican Civil Rights Movement
Surgeons operate with cell phones Oct 2017
Mayor of San Juan, Loiza, P.R. Sept, 2017
Toa Baja, a dear friend's community Sept 2017
Elderly in mountain communities, Oct 2017
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POLITICO: How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico
thttps://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/27/donald-trump-fema-hurricane-maria-response-480557
Loiza, Puerto Rico - December, 2017 Photos by Sylvia Calzada
March, 2018
Six months after the storm, deaf children are less terrified of the night thanks to your generous donation of Solar Lights.
https://luminaid.com/pages/perladeleon
Every time we reach 250 lights, Luminaid ships to San Juan for distribution by friends and colleagues. Please forward link widely.
Sincerely, Perla
Comerio, Puerto Rico, Photos by Ayala
S.O.S. from Elderly - March, 2018
POP-OP EXHIBITION
The Afro-Descendant Project - Puerto Rico
Caribbean Cultural Center Afro-Bembe Festival, Summer 2019
Film Shorts
National Memorial for Peace and Justice Montgomery, Alabama
The War on Vieques
Communities under fire, 1970s
Portraits
Fine Art Prints
Events
Interiors
London Radio
THE INTERCEPT: The Battle for Paradise
Naomi Klein, March, 2018
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-recovery/
©20O8 Perla de Leon All Rights Reserved
Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography
organized by Carmen Ramos, Chief Curator Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC
El Museo del Barrio, 104th Street & Fifth Avenue, New York City
44 female artists who lived and worked in
New York City from 1920-2020
January 2019 - January 2020
South Bronx Spirit
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Events
Perla de Leon was born in New York City.
She received an MFA in photography at Brooklyn College and attended Columbia University's Graduate Program in Film Directing. Perla taught photography and video production to High School and College students, curated Latin American Photography exhibitions, produced training videos for the Board of Education and freelanced in a variety of crew positions in television and film production.
Perla's photographs are in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC and El Museo del Barrio and Gracie Mansion in NYC. Her work has been exhibited in museums in Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Houston, Los Angeles, Barcelona and New York City and has been published in Germany and Brazil.
NY Times Review: Smithsonian Museum
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/arts/design/review-smithsonian-american-art-museum-latino-.html
Barcelona, 2020
EXHIBITIONS 2020- 2021
EXHIBITIONS
November 27- December 13, 2020
IN PROGRESS
CHAPEL OF GRATITUDE
Gracie Mansion - NYC Mayor's Home built 1799
African Diaspora International Film Festival
© 1980 Perla de Leon
© 2020 Perla de Leon
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Decade of Fire
PBS and Documentary Film Festivals 2019
