Niche offerings
With twenty+ years of professional photography experience, and ten+ years working in policy & projects all over the world, I offer unique, niche, interdisciplinary services. I specialize in documentary-style photography which can be complimented by research, culturally sensitive stakeholder engagement, analysis, and writing skills to serve a variety of audiences and publication needs for storytelling, advocacy, reporting to funders, and archival purposes. My services all come with the same promise of quality, dedication, and creative acumen. Click the text links below for a description of offerings.
consultant
Share my hobby exploring food & memory at the “Bite” blog or reach out & connect, I would love to help tell your story!
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Home-based on the northwest pacific coast in the traditional unceded W̱SÁNEĆ territories, but willing and able to travel as needed.
grounded by curiosity & cultural humility
Approach & Passion
My range of experience positions me behind a camera with a uniquely informed lens that can be applied to many contexts. I bring insight into how socio-economic and political forces intersect, integrating an applied understanding of today’s most pressing issues & opportunities into storytelling.
A cultural anthropologist at heart, with an econommic development and communications background, my passions are grounded in exploring and enhancing the human condition - from equity-serving community development to capturing how we express our time in history through the arts and beyond.
Developing a Lessons Learned project analysis, on field mission for the UN Development Program in Laamu Atoll, Maldives.
Testimonials
“I was fortunate to work alongside Lara, who while wearing multiple hats, brought our social cohesion project to new heights with her incredible media savvy. This program which reached immigrant and refugee youth across Canada, was hinged on using social and multi-media as platforms for learning and empowerment… She is a creative powerhouse and one of the most incredible people I have ever worked with!”
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"Lara has an expansive knowledge with regard to photography, design, layout and photo editing. Lara's photographs [for us] have been featured in such publications as Essential Vancouver, Where Magazine, Preview, American Indian Art, and the Vancouver Sun…”
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“Working effectively in foreign contexts requires sincerity, an open mind, and a lot of confidence…This ability demonstrates Lara’s skills for working in cross-cultural, even stressful environments while maintaining rapport, composure and grace.”
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“ It was a pleasure to see the obvious interest of Ms. Hill in the many facets of Tajik society, something that she sought to record on film and managed to do, in my opinion, with uncommon brio.”
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“…Caught between her curiosity and her work ethic, Ms. Hill is in the enviable position of being ever refreshed by her progress through life, through ideas, and through the world.”
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