Land & Lives
Land & Lives is an unfolding documentary body of work.
Through portraiture, field notes, conversations, and return, it traces the relationship between people and place — beginning close to home and expanding outward over time.
Each encounter is held in a simple form — a portrait, a fragment of text, and, where possible, a short audio recording. The intention is not to explain a person, but to make room for their own voice and their relationship to the place they call home.
Some encounters continue as Conversations — longer reflections that deepen the listening.
A few are shared through The Leeça Podcast.
The work moves across regions, following land, memory, and lived experience.
The conversations shared here appear in the language in which they were lived whenever possible. A story told in French carries a different rhythm than one told in English. Every language holds its own music, humour, and way of seeing the world. Rather than translating every voice into my own, I hope to preserve each person’s voice as faithfully as I can. This project will take years.
Like the land itself, it will reveal itself slowly.
Enter where you wish.
Explore the Regions
Rooted in Québec City and expanding outward, each region becomes a chapter in an unfolding portrait of people and place.
Wind, salt, fishing towns, and the long memory of the sea.
Big sky, open land, resilience, and distance.
Light, ice, remoteness, and enduring cultures.
Rivers, language, history, and the places closest to home.
Mountains, coastlines, migration, and movement.
Journeys outside Canada and unexpected encounters.
Small towns, cities, forests, and the crossroads of change.