{"id":17976,"date":"2025-03-03T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=17976"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:06:44","slug":"leila-mendez-counted-shots-inspiration-without-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/leila-mendez-disparos-contados-inspiracion-sin-limites","title":{"rendered":"Leila M\u00e9ndez, counted shots and limitless inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leila M\u00e9ndez,\u00abDisparos contados\u00bb and inspiration without limits<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

If you like photography that smells of life, you'll love following Leila M\u00e9ndez. From Buenos Aires to Barcelona, this photographer turns images into stories. We also celebrate the recent publication of her first book: Disparos contados.<\/h2>\n\n\n
3 March 2025 by Monapart<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Born in Buenos Aires and based in Barcelona, the photographer Leila M\u00e9ndez began portraying musicians and from there jumped to the world of publishing and advertising, cultivating a solid career that she combines with teaching, curating and audiovisual production. She has taken portraits of personalities for media such as The Guardian or El Pa\u00eds Weekly<\/em>and his work has been exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles.<\/em> The art of Leila does not seek to produce correct images, but to narrate: to discover the tone of a person, the tempo of a place, the emotion of a scene. Her projects speak of craft and well-trained curiosity.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Tell us about yourself and your work. Where did your vocation start? Any first memories?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I am Leila M\u00e9ndez,<\/a>I am a photographer born in Buenos Aires. I grew up surrounded by creativity, but it was music that pushed me to pick up a camera for the first time. I started portraying musicians, as a way of approaching the universe that most fascinated me at the time. From there I moved on to the publishing world, then to advertising, and since then I have always continued to orbit around photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you find most satisfying about your work, and is there anything you are particularly proud of?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

What I enjoy most about my work is the experience itself: being there, sharing time with other people, building something together. Meeting talented people, with their own voice, from whom I always learn something, is what nourishes me the most. Y There is always the impulse to translate what I am experiencing through the camera, as if the image were the most natural way to process it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am especially proud of the one that is about to come out in September: for the first time, it has to do with expressing myself in words rather than pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n