Vanessa Leroy
Photographer
Vanessa Leroy is the photographer for the Poetry of Science and will create portraits of the scientists for the public art installation.
Vanessa Leroy (b. 1996) is a photographer from Waltham, Massachusetts. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She remains on the hunt for new ways of seeing, remembering, and altering the world through photography. She is drawn to image-making because of the power it holds to create nuanced representation for marginalized people and uplift their stories. She sees photography as a tool for social justice, and with it she hopes to create worlds that people feel as though they can enter and draw from, as well as provide a look into an experience that they may not personally recognize.
Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, and exhibited at Gallery Kayafas in Boston, MA.