Chris Leslie
Documentary Photography & Film
Chris Leslie is a BAFTA Scotland New Talent award-winning photographer and filmmaker from Glasgow, Scotland. With a BA (Hons) in Psychology and Politics (1996), he spent three years volunteering in Bosnia and Croatia on post-war reconstruction projects before self-training as a filmmaker and photographer.
Since 2004, he has worked as a freelance photographer and filmmaker, earning an MA (Distinction) in Documentary Photography from London College of Communication in 2010. His work spans Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Africa, and Asia, as well as Glasgow, with regular features in The Guardian.
His acclaimed projects include Disappearing Glasgow (2017), a best-selling photo book and multimedia project documenting the city’s transformation, and A Balkan Journey (2021), a visual chronicle of post-war Yugoslavia. As a filmmaker, his feature-length documentary Finding Family (2014) won two Scottish BAFTAs and premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival, while Zatvaranje (2021) explored the parallels between Covid lockdowns and the Siege of Sarajevo.
His new projects include Concrete Dreams (2024), a photo book on the last days of Cumbernauld Town Centre, and The Partisan Necropolis (2025), a feature-length documentary on Mostar’s Partisan Memorial Cemetery. His photographic work has been exhibited across Europe, with Glasgow pieces acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland in 2021.