Fine Art nominee

As a photographer used to making work outside of my home.Now more than ever I had myself, through my camera and love for fables and stories I create stories. In times of COVID 19 I have made a portfolio of images that resonate with the moments we are living. As the human race goes back to the new normal, we will start seeing life and our purpose in a different light. As an artist it has opened new spaces to make work out of my new normal. I just brought my camera with me. Traveling from the kitchen to the playroom, the bathrooms and the storage room. I find that I have discovered that any space is built of millions of possibilities to shoot in. I have started shooting my everyday because as a creative, if I am not working I slowly shutdown. I made work out of frustration and fear. Using it to my advantage as therapy. I wanted to clear the fe an artist. I have enjoyed myself making images that make my audience think and laugh. It has also been therapeutic for me. A way to live outside this world of confinement, fear and uncertainty.

Currently Lara is showing at Art N Folly Gallery in Miami, Alcantara began photographing in Venezuela, where she is originally from. She completed her undergraduate degree was at BARD College, she studied with leading photographers such as Stephen Shore and Larry Fink. She attended Tisch School of the Arts NYU in New York City. She completed the Master of Fine Arts program of the International Center of Photography/BARD College. Lara has worked with the lead photographers, Andres Serrano and Richard Avedon. She has shown in NY, Paris, Venezuela, Spain and Miami. She has participated group exhibitions in places such as the Museum of the International Center of Photography, where she won a national contest sponsored by Dom Perignon, the Michelena Salon in Venezuela and the annual Exxon exhibition at Mobil for new artists at the National Art Gallery in Caracas. She has dedicated herself to creating authentic images that tell stories, with a focus on conceptual fine art. Lara's vision changes as she is shut down by the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic. She begins to infiltrate the world of housewife and thus putting a little comedy on her image, sarcasm and a concept.