Stephen Leslie

Stephen Leslie is a writer, film maker and photographer based in London. He has made documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 on subjects as diverse as Spontaneous Human Combustion, gambling and an episode of Faking It that transformed a male ballet dancer in to a wrestler. His fictional short films include I Was Catherine The Great's Stable Boy (narrated by Brian Cox) and To Leech (starring Jason Watkins, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Alex McQueen). In addition to writing and directing, Stephen has been a street photographer for the past twenty years. His photographs have featured in numerous magazines and websites and been used as the covers of albums, books and even on bottles of beer. His ongoing project about the festival of Purim was included in the Unseen London anthology published in 2017 by Hoxton Mini-Press and his first, solo book, SPARKS – Adventures In Street Photography which combines both his writing and photography has now been published by Unbound / Penguin.