Leandro Badalotti is a photographer and documentarian. In 2008 his proposal for a documentary on immigration was selected by a Brazilian culture fund for production. Leandro directed and edited the resulting project, New Immigrants, which documents the lives of recent arrivals to his home town, Caxias do Sul, in southern Brazil. The following year he shot and edited a documentary about local rock bands from the 1980′s and ’90s.

In the United States, Leandro served as an intern at Magnum In Motion, where he produced a series of multimedia trailers about photographer Larry Towell’s work in Afghanistan. Throughout 2011 Leandro contributed as Associate-producer in several projects at MediaStorm in Brooklyn, NY. Leandro’s photography has appeared in newspapers and magazines in Brazil, Portugal and New York. Currently based in New York City, Leandro is available for editorial and commercial assignments.