My name is Leonard “Yoni” Sambo and I’m a photographer born and raised in Ottawa, ON, Canada. I primarily focus on fashion and portraiture but I also shoot commercial work such as architecture and food.
I’ve always admired fashion as it’s a way for people to communicate a mood, a thought, an idea/concept or how they feel daily without ever saying a single word and it always varies from person to person. The range of clothing is limitless really - with different cuts, colors, types of fabrics, different influences, there’s really no end to what you can create. The majority of my inspiration and how I photograph draws from my travels, things I’ve seen, food I’ve eaten and most of all: movies and how they’re filmed, character development, sets they build, scripts they write and all that comes with it. I shoot in a more cinematic way which allows me to bring out as much texture as I can in the photos to somewhat bring the viewer into the frame as if it were you behind the lens and stood right before each model.
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My photography will always be a work in progress as myself as an artist and as a person. I’m always tweaking things and trying new things to see if they work or not. I find myself much happier at this stage of my career and with this style of photography that I’ve developed over the past few years. Who knows, maybe I can take what I’ve learned in photography and apply it to a short film in the near future. By looking at my work, my goal is for each viewer to understand its purpose or at the very least they bring out a or some of your emotions. By no means do all these photos that I’ve submitted connect in anyway like a series, but what I can say about all of them, is that they were all #ShotByYoni.
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