Walter E. Lara, RBP

Career photographer, author and educator

Lara’s preferred medium is black-and-white, infrared and color photographic silver materials. He utilizes a darkroom enlarger, deluxe photo papers, processed with photographic chemicals.
Lara’s studio and wildlife photography work is primarily digital and aims for symmetry in motion utilizing extreme optics.

A native of Peru, Lara was educated in Lima, as well as in Miami, Florida, Rochester, New York, and Jacksonville, Florida. As a graduate from the most prestigious school of Photography, The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT, 90), his programs of study included Graphic Arts and Biomedical Photographic Communications.

Lara is a Registered Biological Photographer (RBP). He also holds master’s degrees in business and arts and is an instructor for Florida School of the Arts, where he teaches photography. He is author of two books on photographic techniques and advanced media lighting design.

Lara worked as medical photographer, technical director of Medical Informatics and Instructor of Kohler Illumination for University of Florida Health Science Center from 1990-2002. Today he freelances in scientific and commercial photography projects with clients in hospitality, manufacturing and works with artists abroad.
During the summer months Lara travels abroad, contributing with The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve and Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience as volunteer and visitor photographer.

LH84, RIT90, RPB 93, UNF95, Webster05
Member of The Florida Art Education Association(FAEA), BioCommunications Association (BCA)

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