Born in Johannesburg, trained as an architect at Wits; Staedelschule Frankfurt under Prof Peter Cook – Archigram. Leon Krige is a photographer and an architect who documents urban and natural topography. He lectures architectural theory and design at the University of Johannesburg, and previously at the Universities of Witwatersrand and Pretoria in South Africa, using nocturnal high-resolution photography to further research projects about cities. He has been photographing cities, textures, and plant morphology since the early 1980s. Initially using medium format analog film for printing on vintage black and white paper, with occasional contact prints, he documented Johannesburg and Cape Town in detail since 1983. The medium format camera is a timeous process-based tool that requires inverted composition in a glass plate, with a handheld light meter & manual focus, before exposing and subsequently processing film according to the experience of each place, circumstance and phenomenon.