Nowhere to Call Home

Join Leah denBok, author and photographer of the book Nowhere to Call Home. 

Leah's biography is:

Leah is a 17-year-old photographer who lives in Collingwood, ON. Since the age of 13 she has been mentored by Joel Sartore, a National Geographic photographer and Fellow. For the past couple of years she has been traveling, with her dad, to cities throughout North America photographing the homeless and recording their stories. Just recently the fruits of her labour were published in a book called Nowhere to Call Home--Photographs and Stories of the Homeless, Volume 1. Volume 2 is due to be released in June of 2018. This past July CBC's 'The National' aired a documentary about Leah's photography and stories of people experiencing homelessness. Since then her work has begun to attract worldwide attention. For example, the BBC recently did a story about her. As well, she was invited to attend ARTWALK NY this past November as the special guest of the organizer, Dave Giffen. She has also been asked to participate in the Women of the World 2018 festival in Australia in April of 2018. And this past September she shared the stage with Prince Harry and the president of the U.N. at the Air Canada Centre for the WE Day and WE Family events where she addressed 40,000 people.