In 2010, while at RISD, Leifheit founded MATTE Magazine, a magazine platform for new ideas in photography which he edits and publishes.[8] MATTE Magazine often features a photographer's work, a portrait of the photographer by Leifheit, and an interview of the artist conducted by Leifheit.[9][10]
Vice magazine
After graduating RISD, Leifheit was hired as photo-editor by Vice.[11] While a photo-editor at Vice, Leifheit put a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe on the cover of the 2014 fashion issue.[12] In 2016, he wrote an article featuring the work of Neil Winokur, highlighting an "overlooked" photographer with work in many museum collections including Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[13][14]
MATTE Editions
In 2018, MATTE Editions published a monograph by Matthew Morocco titled Complicit.[15][16] In 2019, MATTE Editions published Slow Morpheus, a monograph by photographer Rachel Stern.[17][18]
In addition to editing and publishing, Leifheit has also written on art and photography for Time and Aperture.[19]
Photographic practice
Leifheit's photography focuses on the human figure and their lived environment; his work features a variety of locations from Fire Island, Key West, the crowds surrounding New York City's Freedom Tower, Providence, and others.[7] In addition to his fine art photography work, Leifheit works as an assignment photographer for a variety of publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker, photographing subjects such as Vince Aletti and Mary Boone.[20][21]
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