Leica Connect: Photowalk with Bil Brown

Join this unique photowalk guided by photographer Bil Brown.

Starting with an overview of the Leica M Sytem and his own reasons for working with a rangefinder camera, Bil will highlight the advantages of the system for his own work as well as the value of Leica’s Content Credentials before embarking on a photographic adventure into Boston.

Note:
This is the first of two Bil Brown lead sessions.
All participants in this experience are invited to return on Sunday, December 14th - 11:00-2:00 p.m. for a of the images created during this photowalk.

What to Expect:

• Introduction to Rangefinder Photography
  Learn the core principles of rangefinder photography and explore the rich history of the Leica M System.
• Hands-On Photowalk
  Select an M camera and lens combination and apply your knowledge during a photowalk through the streets of Boston.

Please note: registration does not guarantee access to a demo unit.

What to Bring:

• Please bring your own camera equipment, incase we run out of loaners.
• SD Card
• Valid Picture ID & Credit Card, if borrowing a camera.

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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