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Leticia Valverdes
 Leticia feels that photography is a perfect medium to express herself. It also allows her to do one of her favourite things, interact with people.
Based in the UK since 1993 she has been working as a photographer and artist while developing long term projects. Mirrors, clothes, outings, dance are some of her materials and methods of choice when looking for lyricism and subjectivity in real situations. Focusing on simple ideas that can mean a lot to people, her work touches notions of identity, memory and dreams.
 Born in Brazil, Leticia studied Marketing & Advertising in Sao Paulo before coming to London where she gained a BA (Hons-First) in Fine Art and Photography from Guildhall University.
In the past few years Leticia has won the Ian Parry Award for Young Photographers, sponsored by Nikon and the Sunday Times Magazine; the David Rowley Award for graduates in fine art in UK; and the Jack Jackson Photography Award. She has also been nominated for the Citibank Photography Prize, shortlisted for the John Kobal Award at the National Portrait Gallery, and the Observer David Hodge Award.
 Her work has been exhibited in galleries in London and abroad and has been featured in several magazines such as Sunday Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Tatler, Dazed & Confused,Time Out, Republica, Colors, Independent on Sunday, British Journal of Photography, RPS among others. In 2000 she had her work with Brazilian street girls published in a book -'Invisible Lives' (Vision On, UK, 2000).
In 2005/06 Leticia won an IPRN residency, supported by Sunderland University and the Arts Council to do Postcards Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur. These postcards, which feature the city’s workers taking a break in their day, form the second in a series of postcard projects, begun in Londonwith Real Postcards, which Leticia plans to continue in cities around the globe.
All Change Arts Limited was established in Islington in 1985. It is a registered charity (no. 293972) and a company limited by guarantee (registered in England no. 1964724).
All Change uses the arts to promote social inclusion and community cohesion. www.allchangearts.org
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