Walter E. Lara, RBP

Career photographer, author and educator

A native of Peru, Lara was educated in Lima, as well as Miami, 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. He is a Registered Biological Photographer (RBP). He also holds master’s degrees in Business and Arts in Computer Science from University of North Florida and Webster University respectively. Lara is also an instructor for Florida School of the Arts, where he teaches photography and has written two books on photographic techniques and media lighting design.

Lara’s work started with black & white portraiture techniques; after graduating from RIT he worked as a medical photographer, technical director of Medical Informatics and Instructor of Kohler Illumination for University of Florida Health Science Center from 1990-2002. He continues his work in both scientific and commercial photography with clients in the hospitality industry, stone fabrication manufactures and artists abroad.

His extreme photography has landed him assignments in 2014-16 with Google View Places 360 for Hilton, Hampton Inn, and Omni Hotels.  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. Lara’s preferred medium is liquid, glass and nature, aiming for symmetry in motion utilizing extreme optics.

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

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Florida School of the Arts