Leonie Scholtz was born in Pretoria in 1957. After a successful school career she went on to study medicine and in 1980 qualified as a medical doctor. Thereafter she specialised in radiology at the University of Pretoria. In 1993 she founded her own private practice, and is also an Honorary Professor of Radiology at her alma mater.
As an intern she became fascinated with photography. Despite her workload at medical school, she honed and got to grips with the nuts and bolts of photography by personally processing and developing her photographs in a darkroom at home.
In 2012, Leonie was runner up in the South African Medical Association photography competition and won in 2014.
In 2013 she won her 1st international award when she won a medal at the Global Arctic Awards Competition. Her photograph of arctic terns fighting was exhibited throughout Europe and Asia at multiple exhibitions. She was a finalist in the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards. (Category -Visual effects)
