Lara Platman

Hourly rate: members only

Availability: members only

Willingness to travel: Nearby (100 km)

Professional status: Freelancer

Last updated: 12 Dec 2024

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Language skills: English,

Personal summary

Lara Platman is an Ambassador for Leica Camera AG, a Getty contributor and Author and Photographer of 4 books: Art Workers Guild 125 Years’ (Unicorn Press), ‘Harris Tweed, from land to street’ (Frances Lincoln Publishing) and Photographer for ‘Spirit of Land, the Distilleries of Scotland’ (Frances Lincoln Publishing), also in print is Through the Night, the passion of motorsport as a self -publishing project with Blurb. For the first two books I visited different artists and craftsmen, studios, weavers, sheep farms, tailers, mills, and sorting depots where I photographed and interviewed everyone. After recording all of the people, I then transcribed and edited the words and photographs. My passion for documenting areas of culture that are often considered to be eccentric or endangered stem from being brought up in a family who produced theatrical costumes, I have grown up around creative craftsmen. I trained as a photographer and then a journalist and now combine these two skills to bring an in-depth study to each of my projects. My overarching ambition is to ensure that Britain's living national treasures are acknowledged by a wider audience. I hold a motor racing license, a bike license and restored my own 1964 Series IIa Land Rover, which is now the daily drive and love to take on new adventures with it. I became interested with historic motor racing whilst on a commission from Country Life magazine over twenty years ago. This in turn aroused my interest of women of ‘between the wars’ in particular woman with Agency.

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