Paula Dias Leite is a researcher, professional photographer and visual storyteller consultant from Rio de Janeiro. She has worked for Reuters, BBC Comic Relief, O Estado de Sao Paulo and several NGOs, publications, news and UN agencies as a researcher, visual editor, curator and photographer in contemporary storytelling. Paula has lived for many years in the UK and for over five years between the Middle East and Northern Africa, where she had taken on assignments for UNHCR, FAO and UNWRA. 

Recently, Paula has been devoting herself to explore mixed medias in order to produce a work that gives sensorial expression to the haunting images that pervade our lives. 

Paula is a PhD candidate in Finland, where she researchers the impact and implications of technology in storytelling in today's humanitarian communication practices such as VR/AR/MR and Gaming in the humanitarian context. She also holds an MA in Documentary Photography, University of Westminster (Colin Jacobson and Ben Edwards) and BA in Communication Science emphasis in Cinema Studies, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Antonio Serra). 

Paula is now living in Geneva, Switzerland, and travels to Rovaniemi frequently. She is willing to work on humanitarian projects and innovational experiments in storytelling where she can explore engaging visual ways to make peoples' voices heard.

Photo: Aline Caron Leivas Leite

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