Nicole LeBlanc

Born in the Bahamas in 1994, Nicole LeBlanc’s British and Bahamian heritage predominantly informs her work, using the photographic image to deal with the space between these two places. The confrontation of the separate environments gave light to complex interdependencies, informing the way LeBlanc understands and creates objects and images.

The city of London is a body. A complex organism, with veins running over and under the organs, pumping and flowing life and oxygen into the concrete spaces that constitute the bodily core, limbs and skin. Each borough has unique characteristics, with buildings that act within a
system designed to work in unison with the surrounding space. A structure of a building can function as steel bones, creating the foundations for the living experience. Buildings should function to work for the inhabitants and for the community. In order to reflect 251’s vision, I would like to photograph construction sites/ areas of regeneration in an abstract manner, to bring to life the metaphor of a building as a body. I would like to photograph buildings being created, by focusing on the internal structure with a tinted, magnified lens.