Brent Leideritz

Rex film behind the scenes 🐾 I’ve had a blast being the gothy metal, gutsy and kickass Ruth and looking forward to the rest of the shoot. Everyone in this production including the cast and crew are such a beautiful talented bunch. Love this industry and has been such a joy working with very passionate and creative people 💜 Photos by the legendary @b.leideritz

⚡️⚡️FLASHBACK⚡️⚡️ with @fleshsonice Late night photoshoot I pushed my way into 😆🙄😜

Our second book, 'Divergences: An Anthology of Neurodissident Worlds' is now available for preorder. Pub date is 10th of April. There will also be a second printing in Europe on the 21st of May for our EU audience. Get your copy today at the link in bio. 'Divergences' does not approach neurodivergence as diagnosis or identity, but instead becomes a lens through which the norm itself turns strange—an alternate perceptual logic capable of reshaping how we think about intimacy, infrastructure, technology, and care. Across essays, poems, stories, memoir, and hybrid texts, 'Divergences' asks what happens when perception runs on different circuitry: when language fractures into vibration and pulse, when politeness and coherence reveal themselves as imposed postures rather than neutral baselines. This collection resists sentimental narratives of difference. There is no recovery arc here. Nervous systems appear instead as sites of conflict and capacity—hyper-attentive, analytical, erotically charged, exhausted, lucid. Form carries the argument. Some pieces pulse in fragments and diaristic rupture; others move in tidal repetition, inviting skimming and sensory drift; while theory and confession coexist without hierarchy. The self appears composite—collaged and choral—language broken open to reveal the seams of diagnosis, gender, pain, and survival. Throughout the human is decentered. Bodies leak into animals, machines, landscapes. Stimming becomes cosmology; overload becomes method. The result is less a statement than a field recording: overlapping frequencies, friction and harmony in equal measure. 'Divergences' does not explain neurodissidence from a distance. It inhabits it—rigorous, volatile, and formally alive. Contributions from: @doombeans @perlaanerol @just_goingwild @handifolix Jennifer Weigel @vessels.we.are @michielteeuw @betsy.selvam Z. C. Oktem @dodoismus369 @angeliquejoy.creative G'Lik Koffink @andreadepea @jackieocandy Isabella Clarke @jesus.arcred & @natodrio @eatmyshortstories @anemir3n Elías Brossoise @lonzcore Jaym del Val Edited by @bforblank & @ombretarragnat Intro @ange_e_crawford Cover art @faint.as.fog Cover design @b.leideritz

For those of you in Melbourne/Naarm who are interested in hearing what I am up to for my PHD, my Confirmation of Candidature is next Wednesday 18 Feb in RMIT Building 16 (Storey Hall), Level 7, Room 1 between 11.00am and 12noon. Feel free to come allong and have a listen. For more details head on over to /presentations/practice-research-milestone-conference-february-2026/oh-god-what-have-you-done #b #bleideritz #ohgodwhathaveyoudone #phdlife @rmitphoto @rmit_art

For those of you who may be in need of some new promo photos, or fun photos ... I am opening up some booking spaces between my PhD research in both Adelaide and Melbourne in Feb and March. Drop me a link if you would like to make a booking ... and for those of you in Adelaide performing at the Adelaide Fringe there is an offer as well. #b #bleideritz #byou #bcreative #bseen b.leideritz.com Subjects: @adam.ext & @reubenkayeofficial

Fresh picture for a fresh year 🗡️🪲 —— 🙌🏼 @maid_of_madness created my romantasy dream gown for the 2024 MX Gown Parade (Cape not pictured). Bug Headpiece made by me. 📸 portrait by the incredible @b.leideritz as part of my 2nd Runner Up prize ( thank you! ) - this shoot was made even more special as ‘24 Mx Winner @irisenvy and ‘24 Mx Adelaide @winchesterangelofficial and I all shot on the same day (pure shenanigans 😉), make sure you’re following both of these award winning performers.

Love this photo by @b.leideritz 🩷 Costume by @maid_of_madness ✨ Come see my Bell-Bottoms this Saturday at @nineteentenadl 🥂 . . . #photoshoot #burlesque #bellbottoms #winchesterangel #luxury #burlesqueaustralia

Recently, and as part of some old school photographic wander down memory lane, my love @angeliquejoy.creative and I had a bit of a play after a new headshot was taken (not in this collection) ... mostly for the sheer fun of it, but also as a bit of a test for one of the upcoming PHD creative facets in 2026. The first photos are taken on my trusty canon 5dmkIV with the sigma art 50mm prime lens, and edited via the usual capture one pro > photoshop pathway, the third and fourth photos were taken on a red blackbird fly tlr toy camera on film (scanned by a photo lab, proper scans will occur later) donated by Steve Davis that expired in 2005 (which will be used for a film based chaos experiment) and the final is a phone snap of three polaroids taken on one of my two SX70 polaroid cameras. All shots were lit with a single LED panel as an experiment to see what level of light was available across the different digital/analogue outputs, and as a bit of a throwback to my self taught camera adventures (with bunnings halogen portafloods and sheets) and my first SX70 polaroid given to me by my grandfather. More experiments and play to come ... #b b.challenged b.leideritz.com

For those in the neuroqueer or posthuman space, Xxi has opened the callout for submissions for a symposium in Melbourne/Naarm and online for March 2026. I have helped with the branding/design around the creative works of @minxdragon head on over to xxi.net.au for more details and to submit :)

<rant> today has been one of those days ... a huge thanks to David Hobbs of @master.of.prints for reprinting works for the upcoming @takingup.space 's 'Insatiable' queer art show produced by @bobickmore that opens this week at the @meatmarketmelb in North Melbourne. I thought I would send over the roll of prints via Australia Post express parcel delivery service, which has clearly been a mistake, currently the prints are sitting in Adelaide Airport, after being delivered to an unknown location, then returned to sender without ever making it to Bo. Won't be making that mistake again, it seems a small tube of only a 666mm x 10mm roll that weighed less than a kg was too much ... the local post office has been great, even getting me on the phone while they spoke to the national part of the service, for them to say the address wasnt on their system (its on google and the parcel was sitting somewhere for 2 days) as the excuse they gave :\ hopefully the prints make it there in one piece in time to go up for opening night, if not hopefully night two or three lol best laid plans of being a week early failed this time, and highlights why having a good relationship with a master printer who can save the day is critical for an artist, as sometimes, bad shit happens. </rant>

While @angeliquejoy.creative and I were in Melb/Naarm recently for my Anarchy in the AI opening we decided to have some fun in the @metro.auto.photo photo booth that has been at the RMIT campus, because retro photo booth!!! @rmitphoto @rmitgalleries @rmit_art

“This project was playing with promptographic imagery; What’s a real photograph and what’s a real memory?”      Adelaide based artist Brent Leideritz works in the expanded space of photography. Utilising both digital and film mediums, Leideritz’s work draws on their experience photographing the queer, goth and punk scene of the 90s and 00s.      Their exhibition ‘Anarchy in the AI’ explores nostalgia, identity and societal norms, creatively reconstructing the connection between photographer and subject.    To create this body of work, Leideritz fed an AI diffusion model with specific and disruptive prompts, designed to suspend the programmed censorship of gender and sexuality. These generated photographs were then transposed to polaroid, blurring the lines between image and reality.      To see these “promotographic” works in person, visit First Site Gallery.    ‘Anarchy in the AI’ closes 13 June.      @b.leideritz #FirstSite #RMITCulture #RMITGalleries