Leandro Martins is a Brazilian contemporary photographer and visual artist born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980, currently based in Porto, Portugal. He has lived and worked across Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and Portugal — a life of crossings that shapes everything he makes.

Trained as an advertising creative with a specialisation in art direction, Martins developed a photographic practice rooted in observation and personal memory. His research discusses and preserves the memory of raw and simple things — a body of work that dialogues with what is symbolic, playful and real, weaving memories of a loving ancestral childhood with personal documentary expeditions across four continents.

His work explores the human-earth-habitat connection and the transformations of humanity based on this relationship with reality. Immersed in the scenarios around him, he captures places, people and occasions in their diversity — intersecting contemporary art with documentary photography through a refined aesthetic sense, reflection and sensitivity.

His series O Jogo (2013–2014), a document of improvised football fields across Brazil, was exhibited at Centro de Artes UFF in Niterói, Centro Cultural Light and SESI Cultural in Rio de Janeiro. His series Vô, a tribute to his grandfather told through scarecrows found across four continents, was shown at Vila do Conde Municipal Theatre in Portugal in 2020.

His ongoing project Never Stop Looking brings together all his work as a single self-portrait — a life seen through a lens that never rests.