Marc Ohrem-Leclef is a lens-based artist who explores themes of identity and belonging, especially where their mainstream representations perpetuate inequalities. His collaborative practice manifests in long-term projects, employing documentary and performative modes.

In Olympic Favela Ohrem-Leclef collaborated with residents of Rio de Janeiro's favela communities, incorporating interventional gestures to visualize their resistance against forced evictions from their homes ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games. The monograph Olympic Favela was published in 2014 (Damiani), and the short documentary film premiered at the 2016 Seattle Intl. Film Festival. His current project Zameen Aasman Ka Farq ("As Far Apart as the Earth is for the Sky") will be exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography (HCP) in Fall 2024 and explores the politics of touch between men in India.

Ohrem-Leclef is a MacDowell fellow and finalist in the Aperture Portfolio Prize 2022. His work has received numerous awards, has been exhibited and screened internationally, and is held in the collections of Museo de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, New York. Ohrem-Leclef teaches at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York and lectured at Columbia University, The New School, CUNY, School of Visual Arts, SUNY, and Pratt Institute, amongst others.

Web: www.marcleclef.net ; IG: @marcleclef ; Other: www.marcleclef.com (commercial work)

Courses & Workshops: Portrait Series: Visual and Textual Strategies