LEAH MOSES
Leah Moses is a queer, femme creative writer, photographer, graphic designer, filmmaker, and art director from San Diego, California. Her work most often revolves around themes of body and flesh, womanhood, and intimacy.
Leah is currently working on her first independent publication PEEL. The project is a cross-disciplinary work exploring the interactions between alternative photographic strategies, bookmaking practices, and literature with an analysis of body as topography, intimacy and vulnerability, and the inhabitation of a body. The work is inspired by artists such as Francesca Woodman, Masahisa Fukase, and Sophie Calle, referencing practices of movement, repetition, and subject blurring in an effort to create an indiscernability.
Leah is accredited for her work on various films which were recently showcased at the first annual UC San Diego Film Festival. She served as art and production designer on MANGO CHERRY EPISODE 1 (2022,) and THE KETTLE OVERFLOWS PAST MIDNIGHT (2022.) She worked as a production designer on feature film GLIMPSE (2022) as well as production assistant on feature film DAWNBREAKER (2022.) She also served as key grip on FALLING ONCE, FALLING EVERY TIME (2022) awarded Best Narrative at the film festival. Other projects she has worked on include production designer for OTIOSE (2022), 2nd assistant director for ROCHELLE ROCHELLE (2022), and continuing production designer, assistant camera, and 3rd assistant director for the MANGO CHERRY (2022) series. She is currently assistant director for SOLACE (2022) as well as production designer for ONLY YOU (2022.)
Leah has published design spreads in both Fashion Quarterly and the bi-annual KSDT student zine. During her first year at UCSD, Leah was a founding member of TUNNEL, a student-run arts zine. Tunnel was created out of the artistic void present at UCSD: it was to be a place where students overwhelmed by the STEM culture could find both a creative outlet and a community. The zine currently has four published issues: New Beginnings, Intimacy, Hypnosis, and Six Feet. For the duration of her first and second years at UCSD she served as lead layout editor for Tunnel. She is currently co-designing the first annual zine for Triton Television, a showcase portfolio of material produced by TTV members during the 2021-2022 school year, including org events, film productions, and member articles. In 2020, Leah was a core member behind the first annual Picture Party Virtual Auction, which raised nearly $2,000 in funds to be donated to various Black Lives Matter foundations.
Leah Moses received her BA in English Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego in June of 2022. She is currently working as a public services student assistant at the UCSD Special Collections and Archives located in Geisel Library. She is also currently a media and design intern at KSDT, UCSD’s student-run radio station, a design intern at Fashion Quarterly, a UCSD student-run arts and culture magazine, and an associate at Triton Television.