Photographer and visual artist Leonard Pongo was born in Liege in 1988, and grew up in Belgium. His predominantly long-term projects have been exhibited internationally. Primordial Earth was shown at the Lubumbashi Biennale, Rencontres de Bamako (where it received the Prix de lOrganisation Internationale de la Francophonie), Oostende Museum of Modern Art and at the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts, as part of Pongos first solo exhibition in Belgium. He teaches Documentary Photography at the Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts (ABA) and at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels.

