Mostly self-taught since 2022 and still a hobbyist on a life-long journey to discover photography and its marvelous cinematic storytelling magick.

My first camera was a Sony A7C with a couple of prime lenses like the GM 24mm F1.4 and the 50mm F1.2 (which ended being one of my favorite focal length to use on the Sony system). Ever the workaholic, I only picked up a camera 'coz I wanted to take better photos of my artists (by trade, I was a major music label executive working in artist management, A&R and marketing for a good 8 years).

In May 2022, I saw a video by Peter McKinnon who bought a Leica Q2 Reporter and my photography journey forever changed. I sold all my Sony gear to fund my first Leica Q2 camera three months later. (*I have since sold the Q2 and switched to the Q3 43)

Subsequently, I saw Paul Hepper on the Leica M6 campaign, started dabbling in film photography and bought my first film camera - the Yashica Electro GSN. I had read so much about film rangefinders that I even fixed a couple of Yashica GSNs and GTNs suffering from night leaks and pads of death. A few months later, I sold them all and bought a second hand Leica M6 TTL at a good deal that comes with a Summicron 35mm lens and started snapping a lot of BAD film photos. Thankfully, film is a very forgiving format, which you could see in some of my works during that era.

True to the Leica prophecy, the M6 became the surefire gateway to the digital M system, and at the end of 2024, I bought what I deem my favorite camera - the M11-P. Now I didn’t quite get why I would still have the Q3 43 with the M system. But sometimes it is good to switch things up.

Want to go out to make some photos? Email hello@lennatmak.com or follow me on Instagram @lennatmak.