Lea Long Creates Intentional Visual Narratives Through Film, Photography & Design

BY Sylvester

Lea Long | London Photography Awards

Lea Long

Lea Long is a Melbourne-based filmmaker, photographer, and visual creative whose work centres on thoughtful storytelling across film, events, and brand content. Drawing from her background in film production, she combines cinematic techniques with a refined visual style to create engaging and authentic narratives.

I'm proud of my collaborators on this shoot, as I took the position of creative director, and my camera partner is Karl Johann Te. My journey as a creative has just begun, but it is very inspiring to be recognised, and it motivates me further.

The theme of the shoot is isolation and emotional attachment, how we slowly morph into something else entirely, covered up in shallow validation, desires, anxiety and indulgence that eventually forms a shell that stops us from moving.

It's a slow process, but as a creative, my whole adult life has been a slow, excruciating journey of self-doubt and isolation. I think it really reflects my current state as an artist and as a human being in an ever-changing world that is spinning so fast that we cannot keep up.

I pick the photo that stops me in my track everytime I come across it.

I wanted to capture the fleeing beauty and time.

Surrealist/Abstract photography, it asks questions and also gives us more than one answer.

Simple LUMIX camera set up, it's user-friendly and great for monitoring.

I want them to feel curious, about what they are looking at and how they should feel. Hopefully they can think on it for longer than when they come across something on social media.

The intricate details on the spider web, and the time constraint we had on the location.

For this shoot, the bathroom intrigues me the most. It's so personal, claustrophobic and intimate. It's where we go at our worst moment, and the one place where we are truly alone, and forced to think.

Todd Howard, we have a similar style, but his work is much more minimalist.

Believe in your creative instinct.

Always take your camera with you.

Yes, editing helps me clean up the image and redirect the audience to where I want them to focus.

AI will not affect my own approach, as I refuse to let a machine do anything creative.

The world and people are at different points in time.