BIO
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| Lars Howlett is a visual artist and documentary photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over fifteen years of experience working on long-term professional and personal projects in photography and video. Available as a freelance photojournalist, Lars has completed assignments for the Bay Guardian, Asian Health Services, the Northwestern Alumni Association, Dorst Media Works, La Nación and David Bowie. Recent freelance and editorial assignments include the Mavericks Surf Competition, an immigrant health clinic in Oakland, the Outside Lands Music Festival, and a trekking expedition in the Himalayas en route to Mount Everest. From 2008-2011 he was the chief photojournalist for the Half Moon Bay Review, a weekly newspaper documenting the people and places of the Coastside from Año Nuevo to Devil’s Slide, Skyline Drive to Maverick's surf break. In 2009 he completed a three-year documentary project on immigration, traveling to the U.S. // Mexico border six times, also leading groups of students, musicians and artists on immersions at a migrant refuge in Tijuana. Lars was the primary visual artist for ¡Catapulta! – a collaboration between musicians, actors, dancers and doctors that was awarded a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission and debuted in the Mission District at the Brava theater. The Lars Howlett image archive is represented by Aurora Photos with his images published nationally and internationally in publications such as Outside Magazine and Newsweek International, among others. |
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