Photo & Video
Kasey Leftwich
My work examines the relationship between everyday environments, personal identity, and the passage of time. Using both constructed scenes and documentary approaches, I explore how routine objects and moments shape the way we understand ourselves. These materials allow me to investigate how space and time interact with the body and with individual experience. With a background in painting and graphic design, my process integrates photographic practice with design-oriented elements. I use photography as a way to record, but also to reorganize visual information by applying graphic techniques.
RECENT PROJECTS
“Fragments of Identity”
“Fragments of Identity” is meant to visually interpret how personal identity is not fixed, but assembled from shifting pieces of memory, influence, perception, and experience. Through surreal collage and digital manipulation, this series visualizes the process of finding oneself and the moments of fracture, loss, and reformation that define individuality and visualizes the process of self-discovery being constantly reassembled.
“shelf life”
“Shelflife” explores the relationship between the desirability of a woman’s body and the desirability of food. It investigates how beauty and attraction are shaped by time, focusing on the concept of expiration and the ways society ties a woman’s worth to youth. Culturally often aging is framed as a point of decline, where women are perceived as losing desirability and social value.
Through staged imagery and visual metaphors drawn from food consumption and preservation, this work examines how women are consumed, judged, and assigned worth in ways similar to food. By aligning the language of nourishment, decay, and desirability with the female body, the project challenges the normalization of commodification and questions who determines value, longevity, and relevance.
"Cakeface"
"Meat Package"
"Produce Pile"
"Watermelonskin"
Tucson, az
I fell in love with Tucson, Arizona. It is a place that makes me slow down and pay closer attention to the world around me. The desert, the light, and the openness have reshaped how I experience everyday life, spirituality, art, and creation.
These photographs come from spending time outside and noticing small moments within a vast landscape. Tucson encourages an appreciation for nature and existence. This work is about being present in a place that feels ethereal, earthly grounding, and deeply beautiful.
