Lara Jo Regan is an American photographer. Her work has spanned multiple fields of photography including photojournalism, documentary,[https://www.shutterbug.com/content/lara-jo-regan-strange-and-beautiful-journey] magazine, and fine art.[https://www.kopeikingallery.com/artists/lara-jo-regan-1] She is also a filmmaker.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1301703/]
The recipient of many of her field's top honors, the progressive hybrid nature of her work influenced the aesthetic direction of photojournalism
She contributed frequently to national publications including Time, Newsweek, LIFE, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Premiere, and Entertainment Weekly and many others from the late 1980s to the mid Aughts.
In subsequent years she focused on long-term documentary and fine art projects while becoming a photography columnist for Artillery Magazine in 2011.[https://artillerymag.com/byline/lara-jo-regan/] Residing in Los Angeles since 1985, she has also built up one of the most extensive collections of Southern California street photography.[https://photoville.nyc/exhibition/drive-thru/][https://www.515bendix.com/past-exhibits] and also continues to author dog photography books [https://www.yahoo.com/news/dogs-beach-photographer-documents-explosion-slideshow-wp-111552708.html]
MAJOR PROJECTS / BODIES OF WORK
The Squat Culture of Runaway Teens (1990–1991)
Documented homeless youths and runaway teens in Hollywood, centering on life in the squalid and shadowy spaces where they lived and slept such as abandoned buildings and gas stations and inside the cement valuts of freeway underpasses.
Behind Oscar's Back (1993–1998)
Commissioned by Premiere magazine over a four-year period, a large collection of images shot with exclusive unprecedented backstage access capturing how the Oscar telecast is created from start to finish that features surprising candid shots of the production team and stars photographed with a distinctive point of view.
The UnCounted (1999–2000)
Commissioned by LIFE magazine, the extensive project documented poor, new and disenfranchised segments of the American population overlooked or vastly undercounted by the U.S. census as a means "to explore extreme poverty, new waves of immigration, remote and residual Native American enclaves and societal dropouts."[https://www.larajoregan.com/new-gallery][https://www.today.com/pets/lara-jo-regan-takes-dog-photos-dogs-cars-1d80274536][https://www.expressnews.com/lifestyle/article/Dogs-in-Cars-captures-the-joys-of-being-a-dog-5960684.php]
Dogs on the Beach
A book of color photographs documenting canine life on the beach shot in multiple scenic dog locations throughout the United States.[https://www.yahoo.com/news/dogs-beach-photographer-documents-explosion-slideshow-wp-111552708.html]
The Mr. Winkle Photo Collection
Encompassed many different series of photos portraying the photographer's canine muse that