Luciano Lejtman is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. His practice spans photography, light-based installation, travel, and visual narrative, blending more than fifteen years of creative experience with a deeply personal artistic vision.

Over the years, he has documented rituals, landscapes, and living traditions across some of the most remote places in the world, developing a visual language in which color takes on an atmospheric role, creating vibrant images that oscillate between the real and the imagined. Light serves as a narrative axis in his work — a bridge between perception and transformation.

His latest project, LUMINA, brings together three bodies of work exploring identity, landscape, and the dreamlike through portraiture, abstract aerial photography, and pieces intervened with light-based elements and sculptural structures. His work has been featured in exhibitions, festivals, and international publications, and continues to expand into immersive formats such as lightboxes, installations, and mixed media.

 

Artist Statement

My work emerges from a fascination with light — its ability to reveal, transform, and expand what we perceive. I see the camera as a bridge between the real and the imagined, and I use light, whether natural or constructed, as a language capable of opening sensory and emotional thresholds.

LUMINA, my central project, unfolds in three dimensions:

ANIMA explores portraiture and human presence, where cultures and gazes become intimate encounters with identity.

AETHER presents abstract aerial landscapes, territories that drift between the geological and the dreamlike, revealing hidden patterns within nature.

SOMNIUM transforms photographs into hybrid objects through miniatures, neon, and luminous structures, expanding the image into sculptural and imaginative space.

My practice combines documentary observation, technical exploration, and a deeply intuitive impulse. I am drawn to the threshold where an image stops being a document and becomes an experience — a suspended moment where the viewer can pause, contemplate, and encounter a sense of wonder or quiet.

Ultimately, I aim to create images that function as portals: moments in which light not only illuminates reality but also hints at the mystery that lies beyond it.