Charlie Lederer is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose work is shaped by a lifelong engagement the communities and geography of New York State.

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Born in Brentwood on Long Island, a neighborhood defined by first and second-generation immigrants from Central America, he attended college in Potsdam, New York, a rural town in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains near the Canadian border. After graduating, he settled into and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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These layered regional experiences inform his photographic practice, which attends closely to place, community, and the textures of everyday life.

 

Lederer photographs street life and landscapes where human presence lingers at the edges: abandoned objects, incidental structures, the residue of everyday life in open space. His images are quiet and observational.

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Lederer has exhibited work in group exhibitions across New York City, including at SoHo Photo Gallery and Seven House Gallery, and has contributed photography and writing to Ditmas Park: A Visual Anthology (Taylor & Co. LLC, 2025).

 

Since 2022, he has served as a Director of Camera of the Month Club, a New York City-based photography collective, where he contributes to annual programming, exhibition production, and yearly member retreats in the Catskills. He has been an active member of the collective since 2019.