Silvia Lareo Vazquez

Silvia Lareo-Vazquez, of Cuban descent, grew up on an island off Miami Beach. A tropical lifestyle molded from early childhood later influenced her fine art photography work.

“We ventured out on our sailboats and watched seaplanes land in shared waters as the Goodyear blimp floated high above. I thought I wanted to be a seaplane pilot until my father gave me my first camera.” An early passion for photography and fervid fascination with capturing images, led to the beginning of Lareo-Vazquez’s photography career in New York City in the 1980s. She started out assisting renowned still life and portrait photographers Terry Niefield and Andrew Unangst. Master photographers Irving Penn, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White, and Jacques Henri Lartigue were influential regarding lighting, composition and subject matter. Her eventual advancement led to photographing for numerous magazines and selling her fine art photography through The Robin Rice Gallery, collectors, and interior designers in the US and Europe. In 2005 Silvia Lareo-Vazquez moved to Alta Gracia, Argentina obtaining her private pilot’s license at the local Aero Club in 2012, fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming a fine art photographer and pilot.