Léa Thijs is a South African-Belgian documentary photographer, born in 1996 in Johannesburg. She began studying analogue photography at fourteen at the Lycée Français Jules Verne and later earned a BA in photography at Middlesex University in London.
Her work looks at mental health and the ethics of representing others, and she shoots mainly on large format film. Her first book, Safe House (Setanta Books, 2019), began as her final-year project and explores her relationship with her father after his bipolar diagnosis.
