From the B&H Photography Podcast:
Leshko provides insight into her process and workflow as it evolved over the eight years she worked on [Allowed To Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries]. Her dedication to process is clear as she explains how she hit upon this idea, why she chose certain animals to photograph, what cameras and gear she decided upon, and how the series developed into an advocacy project. She emphasizes her cognizance of the power dynamic in portrait photography and how respectful interaction for and even a form of collaboration with the animals was fundamental to create this type of portraiture.