Oliver Leach
Oliver Leach
UFO 8.6, 2015/16
Chromogenic contact print
11 x 14 in
Edition of 10
Oliver Leach creates composite photographs depicting mysterious phenomena and seemingly impossible events. Inspired by nineteenth-century spirit photography, his work explores the intersection of photography, illusion, and belief in the supernatural. UFO 8.6 evokes an otherworldly encounter, challenging the photograph's traditional role as evidence of reality.
Oliver Leach was born and raised in Arlington, Texas. He studied photography and imaging in New York, Georgia and San Francisco, where he still resides. Oliver has spent the past fifteen years developing a unique composite photographic process that he uses to create images of fantastic and impossible phenomena and visitations. His composite photo process is designed conceptually around the techniques used in spirit photography to build images of ruptures of the normal world, places where the sublime forces it's way in. Leach uses the visual structure that developed organically when belief in the paranormal intersected with photography.

