Leica Connect: Photo Slam With Bil Brown

Photo Slam: About this Event

Join us for an exclusive “Photo Slam” , led by the distinguished photographer and poet, Bil Brown. This gathering provides a platform for participants in the previous days photowalk to showcase and discuss their photographic work with the public.

Like a traditional poetry slam, where poets perform original pieces for an audience that evaluates their performances, a photo slam invites photographers to present their images in a dynamic and interactive setting.

Attendees will share selected photographs captured during the day's photo walk, explaining the narratives and emotions behind each shot. The audience will act as impromptu judges, engaging with the visuals and fostering lively dialogue between the artists and observers.

This unique event highlights Leica’s commitment to community and artistic exploration, offering participants a valuable opportunity to reflect on their experiences and draw inspiration from one another's perspectives.

The SLAM will be judged by none other than YOU, the audience!
Audience participation is mandatory for this event. Afterward, hang out for some coffee and camera discussions in the gallery.

BIL BROWN

Bil Brown is an American photographer and Lens-Based Artist whose work merges the poetics of the avant-garde, with the precision of editorial craft and immediacy of street photography. A former student of Allen Ginsberg and others at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Brown’s photographs navigate the poetics of identity, politics of form, mythopoetic realism and surreal distortion. His editorial work in celebrity portrait, fashion and stories has appeared in PAPER, Interview, Flaunt, Purple, Leica Fotografie International, and Leica S Magazine, among others. His acclaimed series MYLAR reimagines the portrait as both reflection and rupture, blending art history with modern identity performance. Artist and friend Penny Slinger (DIOR, An Exorcism) remarked that Brown’s work “peers through the looking glass to reveal not fantasy, but the shimmering architecture of the self.” Internationally exhibited and recognized for his bold, immediate style, Brown embodies the Leica ethos of authorship through vision, intimacy and has been celebrated for his distinct visual language in an age of doom-scrolling algorithmic monotony.

As founder/Editor-in-Chief of Black & Grey magazine, Brown continues to champion experimental voices in photography, art and fashion and committed to the "the next wave" by reviving the magazine in 2026. Bil is the author of an ongoing zine project in the series The Hollywood Cult, and has authored multiple photo books and is an active street and documentary photographer based in Hollywood, California.

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