About me
Robert LeBlanc is a photojournalist and documentary photographer. His work is marked by uncommon intensity and immediacy, the product of a career spent documenting subcultures and the raw corners of the world from a position of extreme closeness.
His projects are often the result of years worth of trust-building, and he has built a practice of finding and gaining intimate access to undiscovered and revelatory slices of life that speak with great power to a world in upheaval. He has documented hotshot firefighters, hurricane survivors, Pentecostal snake handlers, the American sideshow scene, illegal strip clubs, and gang members in trap houses. As a photojournalist, he has captured images of the extreme-right Bikers for Trump and the Proud Boys, part of a project the Sunday Long Read called a “tour de force.”
His book Unlawful Conduct, which pre-sold out in 8 countries, has been carried in leading art bookstores around the world including MoMA PS1 and the Frye Art Museum. His latest book, A New America is a panoramic exploration of daily life and the wild fringes of a country in uncommon times, seen by a photographer with an uncommon lens.
Juggalo Festivities
Legend Valley, Ohio
Getting Low
Hamilton, OH, USA
Let it Swig
New Orleans, LA, USA
Velvet Lounge
Austin, TX, USA
Gang Tools
New Orleans, LA, USA
Hurricane Irma
Tampa, FL, USA
Gold Fronts
Tucson, AZ, USA
Mississippi Heat
Jackson, MS, USA
Big Smiles
Phoenix, AZ, USA