<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;"><b><br></b></p><p style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><br></span></p> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>My aesthetic grew out of the post-punk era of a D.I.Y. lifestyle exploring street culture, sexuality and social commentary. As primarily a self-taught photographer, my personal work investigates ways in which we communicate with each other - through identity and language. By extension, my commercial work usually comes from within the music industry; collaborating with recording artists on their image and envisioning ways to capture individuality through pictures. Parallel to this career in photography, I have collaborated with music video and commercial directors writing treatments for both short and long form projects and also freelanced as script reader for various NY-based production companies. In an effort to combine all of these elements and have them rise and converge, I am now moving forward into film making as a director and producer of short form narrative presentations that employ technology as a tool for the democratization of the industry, not as a means or as its own character dimension. After we are wowed by the latest, most awesome disruptive technology, it is still a good story that really grabs us.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My first feature, called KINGDOM COME, will have an online release, and is about the dilemma of youth and how to reconcile your ideals as a teen with the flawed rules of society. Email me if you would like to read the script and check out my web site of photography work as a visual reference to my style.</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.leslielyons.com</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div>Leslie</div><div>leslie@leslielyons.com</div><div><br></div>