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Leonie Marinovich obtained a B.A. Urbanology in 1990 from the University of the Free State and went on to work for a U.S. High-Tech company based first in London and then in Geneva. There, she managed global accounts including top Fortune 500 companies. She returned to South Africa in December 2000 to focus on documenting the interaction between people and their environment.
Her exhibitions include Prospects of Babel at the Bell-Roberts Gallery in Cape Town (2008), as well as two bodies of work at the Museum Africa, Johannesburg ("Borderline" and "Spirit World" during the 2002 Bonani festival) and in Geneva at the World Intellectual Property Organisation in 2003.
She does documentary film work and production (SABC, CNN Inside Africa) and is regularly commissioned as a photographer by international publications and organisations. She is a founder of Hekaya Digital Storytelling, a non-profit organisation focused on training people in Digital Storytelling.