"Leli's eye is forever present, never overbearing and always compassionate. His art lies particularly in his keen eye for detail, capturing the quiet expressions and moments at times when the people of London don't think anyone's watching. The rare quality of his work is the intimacy he has with his subjects; an intimacy that is elaborated in his writings."
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"Artists like Leli do humanity a service that any other profession would be hard pressed to emulate."
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"His photographs don't have an intense sentimentality; one does not feel melancholia or pity seeing them and they don't let the obsever identify themselves with the subjects. The artist approaches his subjects with distance as well as sincerity."
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"From the end of one strange summer to the next, I walked around London looking for the closest thing I could find to the truth in any given moment. It didn’t feel great a lot of the time. But it feels a little better now."
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"It’s a collection of often intense and genuine snapshots portraying an unfamiliar city. In other words, a successful attempt at catching the many faces of a many-sided and shifty metropolis."
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"His photography is notable for an ability to capture the human face of what can at times seem a cold and unforgiving place, and while his pictures definitely lean towards the bleak, there are at least a few images which suggest a community spirit is to be found even in the shadiest corners of this most forbidding of cities."
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"Leli's photographs carry a rare sentimentality and give a bittersweet sense of nostalgia. They are subtle, conscious and to some extent convey the loneliness that lies within the city."
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