Leandro Pineda is a fine art photographer whose work explores the quiet relationships between light, time, and form. Working exclusively in black and white, he creates photographs that reduce the visible world to its essential elements, allowing light, shadow, mass, and void to become the language through which each image is experienced. Rather than documenting places or objects, Pineda investigates the boundaries where one condition transforms into another: where light becomes shadow, architecture becomes space, stone becomes memory, and stillness becomes presence. His photographs invite contemplation over explanation, encouraging viewers to slow down and experience what exists beyond the subject itself. This approach has evolved through bodies of work such as From Time to Skin and Quiet Stone, where natural landscapes and architecture become studies of permanence, transformation, and the passage of time. While each series begins with a different subject, they are connected by a shared pursuit: revealing the quiet dialogue between what changes and what endures. Holding a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Film Academy, Pineda approaches photography through the combined perspectives of visual storytelling, observation, and formal composition. His background outside the arts continues to influence his practice, fostering a method that is both analytical and intuitive. Based in Puerto Rico, he works under the name 3 Pikos, an evolving creative practice dedicated to curiosity, experimentation, and intentional seeing. Through every project, Pineda seeks not simply to preserve moments, but to reveal the relationships hidden within them, translating stillness into images that can be seen, felt, and remembered.