Fontaines DC
Fashion Journal
Pentax 17
Oats the Label
Camp A Low Hum
Frankie Magazine
Vedomme
Cool Pretty Cool
Weyes Blood
Angourie Rice
Documenting the Body
Centre for Contemporary Photography
About
Lekhena Porter (b. 1992, Khmer/Pakeha/Ngāi Tahu) is a photographer and artist from Aotearoa New Zealand, based in Naarm Melbourne.
Working mostly on film, they make portraits across fashion, music and art, moving between commissioned and personal work. Portraiture sits at the centre of their practice, lensed from a queer perspective and rooted in identity, representation and the politics of who gets looked at. Their subjects are often queer people and people of colour, photographed with trust and collaboration.
Clients & Features
- Fashion Journal
- Oats the Label
- i-D AU/NZ
- Noisy
- Acclaim
- Vedomme
- Underground Sundae
- Bare Boutique
- Jude
- Sister Studios
- The Immigration Museum
- Beaút Club
- Saatsuma
- Pseushi
- Fortunes
- Local Girl Gang
- Psyklz Clubsport
- Pinky and Kamal
- Kaltblut
- Teeth Magazine
- Stone Street Agency
Award: Best photo story for ‘Itchy’, Aotearoa Student Press Association, Salient Magazine.
Organiser: Photo Print Raffle, a print fundraiser for Mutual Aid for Palestinian Families, 2025.
Publications
- The Dip, 2026
Issue 5: Grutas de Tolantongo Cover Story - Fashion Journal, 2025
Issue 196: Charlene Davies - Fashion Journal, 2024
Issue 195: Emporium Feature - Odda Magazine, 2021
Angourie Rice - Gusher Magazine, 2020
Issue 4: Weyes Blood - Acclaim Magazine, 2019
Issue 2: Venus X Digital Cover - Bendt Magazine, 2019
Issue 1: Hikikomori - Hot Chicks with Big Brains, 2018
Issue 7: Flex Mami - Contributor Magazine, 2018
Issue 16: Day or Night - Salient Magazine, 2016
The Body Issue: Itchy - You Me and Both Magazine, 2016
Sacreflux
Exhibitions
- Hillvale Photo Trophy, 2026
Hillvale Gallery - Winter Light, 2025
Brunswick Street Gallery - Hillvale Photo Trophy, 2025
Hillvale Gallery - Pentax 17 Official Australian Camera Launch, 2024
Hillvale Gallery - Hillvale Photo Trophy, 2024
Hillvale Gallery - After Hours, 2022
Hillvale Gallery - B-SIDE, 2021
Blindside - Something To Look At While You’re Out Getting Groceries, 2020
Hillvale Gallery - B-SIDE, 2020
Blindside - Cream town, 2020
Online - Bushfire Photo Appeal, 2020
Online - Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, 2020
Immigration Museum - Studio Sale, 2019
Heimur - Keep The Fire Burning, 2018
Hillvale Gallery - CCP Salon, 2018
Contemporary Centre for Photography - Coda, 2018
Studio Brunswick - Reflection, 2017
Flinders 424
I would like to pay respects to the original custodians of the land that the majority of these photos have been taken on, the Wurundjeri people of their Kulin Nation. I would like to acknowledge their Elders past, present and emerging. I am grateful for their care in land and water which has helped form the terrain I am fortunate to work upon. Sovereignty was never ceded, always was, always will be Aboriginal land.