About

Brazilian Leticia Valverde studied Fine Art and photography at London Metropolitan University. Her personal work concentrates on interactions with people and begins with deep listening and grounding. Through simple ideas, she invites collaboration and exploration of identity, self compassion and curiosity towards the self, body and nature.

Leticia tells stories of people and planet through photography and film, working with communities worldwide, with a strong focus on the Amazon and on indigenous conservation, climate change and health. She recently developed a body of work with the support of a Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary, collaborating with Amazonian indigenous peoples whose bodies and the forest are contaminated by mercury due to illegal gold mining. Alongside this, she works as a TV producer, including recent work for BBC Planet Earth 3 and other series producing stories on female environmental protagonism.

Her work has been featured in a number of group and solo exhibitions in the UK and internationally, and published in magazines such as the Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent, Telegraph, Guardian, Marie Claire and Colors. She has also collaborated with institutions, NGOs and companies including the Wellcome Trust, Save the Children, Oxfam, All Change Arts and YouTube among others.

She has received various awards and grants including Portrait of Britain, Emergentes Award at Encontros da Imagem Portugal, Via Arts awarded by Latin American and Iberian Embassies for UK based artists, the Ian Parry Award, Arts Council Grants for the Arts and an IPRN fellowship.

Her work has been published in three monographs: “Brazilian Street Girls Invisible Lives” (Vision On, UK, 2000), “Dear Ana” (Hurtwood, UK, 2021) and “And Now My Children Know” (Ipsis, Brazil, 2021). It has also been included in books on the history of Latin American and Brazilian photography, as well as in various BBC books, and more recently in The Mindful Photographer (Thames and Hudson, UK, 2022), Among the Trees (Hoxton Mini Press, UK, 2023), Contemporary Photography as Collaboration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) and Everyday Wonder (Hoxton Mini Press, UK, 2025).

Please get in touch for my full CV with details of exhibitions and publications. For commercial and editorial work please refer to sessions on the website or get in touch for clients testimonials.