News

Exhibition Sep ‘13: Beyond the Assignment, an exhibit of 10 American architecture photographers and sponsored by the Julius Shulman Institute is in the programming stage and will open in Los Angeles fall 2013.
On Location Detroit May ‘13: Lara will travel to Cranbrook, IL, to shoot the new girls’ school on famed arts campus for Texas firm, Lake|Flato.
Editorial Apr ‘13: Lara’s work will appear in a feature on public buildings, in the April issue of Architecture Magazine.
Travel Apr ‘13: Taking some time to explore Down Under, in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sydney.
Editorial Mar ‘13: Lara is completing photography for the upcoming book, INSPIRED, due out from Documentary Books early spring 2013.
On Location Philadelphia Mar ‘13: Lara photographed Drexel University’s new URBN Center, formerly the Info Systems Bldg, a 1978-Venturi box, now retrofitted for the depts of architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and fashion.
New Media Feb ‘13: Lara’s stills, pans and time lapse photography were included in the short doc film on the national AIA award winning McAllen Library in Texas.
Editorial Sep ‘12: McAllen Library in So.TX will be in Fast Company print edition, PA “Hobby Farm” is the cover story in Custom Home, and LeMAY Museum is featured in AAA’s Journeys Mag.
On Assignment - Laramie, Wenatchee & Minnetonka Sep ‘12: Lara will be shooting a new arts complex at U Wyoming for THA Architects, another arts education building for Integrus at Wenatchee College, and a health care campus outside Minneapolis for RSP end-month.
Online Press Aug ‘12: McAllen Main Library, the “Abandoned Wal-Mart Turned Largest Single-story Library in the Country” hit the blogosphere in late July, and was featured on Architizer, Slate.com, Huffingtonpost, Architect online and more…
On Assignment – Santa Cruz & Calgary Jul ‘12: Lara & crew will be shooting the new visitors center for the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary as well as Dead Central, the official Grateful Dead Archive at UCSC for THA. Then onto Calgary to capture GE’s Innovation Center for Gensler DC and Hornall Anderson.
Book Project Jun ‘12: Lara signed on to shoot INSPIRED: the churches of Seattle, the forthcoming book on 50 historic and modern places of worship, to be published in November by Documentary Media.
Artist Talk May ‘12: Jack Straw Productions hosts Lara Swimmer and collaborators Robert Zimmer and Perri Lynch Friday night for an open discussion of their process which lead to the CARTASONIC installation. June 1st, 7:00pm.
Gallery Apr ‘12: CARTASONIC (“map / sound”) a collaborative AV installation combining field recordings, projection and photomontage opens 04/06 at Jack Straw New Media Gallery and runs through June 8th 2012, with Artist Talk on 06/01
On Assignment - Texas Mar ‘12: Lara and crew head to South Texas next week for a still and video shoot of McAllen’s new library, plus a day with Lake/Flato in San Antonio.
Editorial Mar ‘12: Wallpaper* City Guide, first Seattle edition photographed by Lara Swimmer, is now available on Phaidon and Amazon websites.
Editorial Aug ‘11: Lara recently completed photography for the Seattle Wallpaper* City Guide book, due out from Phaidon this Fall and available online and in select design & museum book shops.

Lara shot the cover feature for EcoHome Magazine’s Sept/Oct issue
Fellowship May ‘11: A 2010 joint fellowship with the Northwest Institute of Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy (NIAUSI) culminated late fall, and large scale mappings of the documentation are currently in the works. Public presentations will be made 05.11 and a gallery installation at Jack Straw Productions is scheduled for early 2012.
Admiral Live/Work Building Mar ‘11: The home/office building of LARA SWIMMER PHOTOGRAPHY & zimmerraystudios was selected as the Seattle AIA’s House of the Month, and will appear in Record Houses issue of Architectural Record in a feature on architects’ own homes.
Paris Exhibit Mar ‘11: A 5-image panorama of Lara’s Olympic Sculpture Park photography (Weiss/Manfredi Arch) will be included in the exhibit, La Ville Fertile, at the Cite d’Architecture et Patrimoine.
Editorial Feb ‘11: Recent work can be seen in Metropolis Magazine’s Smart Environments Awards issue, 02.11, in conjunction with the IIDA (Roseville Library), Bloomberg News & Business Week online (Urban Outfitters Free People), Time.com (Cargotecture c320 project), and Northwest HOME Magazine’s, 03.11) AIA House of the Month (Admiral Live / Work Bldg), and later this Spring in GreenSource, 05.11, and Architectural Record,05.11.
AIA Conventions: 2009, 2010 May ‘10: Lara was selected by the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) to display work with 25 other architecture shooters at the AIA Conventions in both SF and Miami, in a gallery space sponsored by Canon and Calumet.
Commission Jun ‘08: Along with her partner Robert Zimmer, Lara was commissioned by the UI’s Prichard Art Gallery in Moscow to create a joint artwork and site specific installation, the “Palouse Project,” a two-year culmination of that collaboration. “Topographies in Built and Natural Landscapes” ran June - Sept 08.
Artist Grant May ‘08: Lara was the recipient of a 2008 City Artist Grant by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs for her work on the Palouse Project (first published in Metropolis, 05.2008)
NY Exhibit Jun ‘06: Metropolis Magazine’s 25 anniversary issue was celebrated in New York with a photo exhibit at the Art Director’s Club in Chelsea, “The Metropolis View: 25 Years Through the Lens,” in which Lara was one of 25 photographers, and one of twelve featured in the issue.