lara@swimmerphoto.com
206.284.5213
A Los Angeles native who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, Lara was a student of film theory and media at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School in Philadelphia, as well as at the Sorbonne's Center for Film and Critical Studies in Paris, and holds degrees in Media Studies and French Literature.
Lara shoots on assignment for architecture and design firms around the country, and has been published in Architect, Architectural Record, Gray, LUXE, Metropolis, Minnesota Architect, the New York Times, Northwest Home, Residential Architect, Seattle Magazine, Texas Architect and Wallpaper*. Her images have been included in books and exhibits nationally and internationally. She has contributed to and authored over 5 books with publisher Documentary Media, most notably, PROCESS: Seattle Central Library, INSPIRED: Churches of Seattle, and in the works, New and Reimagined Libraries of The American South and West. Lara was invited by NGO Meridian International Center to participate in an architecture delegation to the UAE November of 2019, sponsored by the Embassy of the UAE in the US.
Architizer named Lara one of the prestigious 12 top Women in Architecture Photography internationally in 2018. She was made an Honorary member of the American Institute of Architects in 2005.
Architecture / Design
atelierjones
Graham Baba Architects
Heliotrope Architects
Hacker Holst Hybrid
Integrus
Lake | Flato
LMN Architects
Miller Hull Partnership Mithun
MSR Design
NBBJ
OKA
SKL Architects
Weinstein A|U
zimmerraystudios
Arts
4 Culture
Documentary Books
MoPOP
MOHAI
Seattle Art Museum San Francisco MoMA
Seattle Opera
Seattle Symphony
Build
Dovetail
Krekow Jennings
Lease Crutcher Lewis
MKA
Schultz Miller Sellen
YS Built
Vulcan
2015 - present - Permanant Installation at the historic Union Stables building
2013 – at Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery & Julius Shulman Institute
2012 – Jack Straw Productions,
Seattle
2011 – Cite d’Architecture et Patrimoine, Paris
2009 – Seattle-Tacoma Int’l Airport & Museum of Flight, Seattle
2008 – Suyama 3x10 Showroom, Seattle
2008 – University of Idaho Prichard Art Gallery, Moscow
2007 – The Alexis Hotel, Seattle
2006 – Art Director’s Club Chelsea, New York
2001 – ATL Phillips Campus Bothell, Solo Exhibition
2000 – Experience Music Project, Seattle
1998 – Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (Through 2007)
1998 – Benaroya Hall Information Center, Seattle
1997 – AIA Seattle, Solo Exhibition
1996 – Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle
1996 – AIA, Seattle
1994 – Lead Gallery, Seattle, Solo Exhibition
1994 – Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, Solo Exhibition