[4] He attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography.
[5][6] In 2015, Leifheit enrolled at Yale University graduating in 2017, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree.
[11] While a photo-editor at Vice, Leifheit put a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe on the cover of the 2014 fashion issue.
[15][16] In 2019, MATTE Editions published Slow Morpheus, a monograph by photographer Rachel Stern.
[19] Leifheit's photography focuses on the human figure and their lived environment; his work features a variety of locations from Fire Island, Key West, the crowds surrounding New York City's Freedom Tower, Providence, and others.