Lev L. Spiro is a lens-based artist whose work explores the duality of light and darkness, evoking the natural world as both sacred and indifferent—at once a place of solace and a realm of mystery. His images navigate these paradoxes, finding grace in shadow and disquiet in the sublime, forming meditations on spirit, survival, and the fragile poetry of existence.

Lev’s fine-art photography has been featured in solo exhibitions at A. Smith Gallery in Austin, TX, and La Bottega Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, and juried into more than 70 national and international exhibitions, including PH21 Gallery, Praxis Gallery, the SE Center for Photography, and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel. His work has appeared in Dodho, Shadow & Light, F-Stop, All About Photo, Black & White, and Art Ascent (Gold Artist, September 2025 & June 2021).

Before turning his full focus to fine-art photography, Lev directed more than 150 productions for film and television, including Orange Is the New Black, The O.C.,  Modern Family, and Weeds—a cinematic foundation which continues to inform his photographic practice through an emphasis on atmosphere, emotion, and the expressive power of light.

Lev teaches the popular courses The Artful Garden, Story & Emotion in the Natural World, and now Thin Places: Photography and the Sacred in Nature. He lives and works in Los Angeles, where he continues to teach, photograph, and explore the ways light, time, and perception shape our experience of the natural world.