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Bio
Education
Awards (cont'd)
Guy P. Larin
Born & lives in Montreal QC, Canada
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Guy-Philippe Larin began experimenting with photography in the early 70’s with a Pentax Spotmatic with a single 50mm lens. In the 80s, he set up a home darkroom for work on black and white imagery.
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He graduated from Concordia University in 1975. After a 39-year career in the mining industry, he retired in 2017. From then on he concentrated on his passions of photography, skiing and travel.
As a former mining industry executive, Guy was very fortunate to have lived and worked in Asia, Africa and Europe. 10 years of his career were spent in Africa alone. He travelled extensively for work and pleasure and usually carried a camera with him.
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In recent years, he joined camera clubs and the Canadian Association for Photographic Art (CAPA) and received several national and international awards for his work, much of which was for monochrome images.
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He enjoys a number of aspects of photography, but travel and nature imagery are his favourites. He has recently given seminars on travel photography, which were well received by camera club members. He works mainly with Canon mirrorless cameras and lenses, Gitzo tripods, Epson printers, as well as with a DJI drone.
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Among other prominent photographers, he appreciates the work of Ansel Adams, Freeman Patterson, Robert Doisneau, Sebastião Salgado, Greg Dutoit and Nathan Horton.
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Publications
​​2018 — Winner of Silver Certificate in the Photo Journalism Club Competition for "Street Vendor, Hoi An, Vietnam" , Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA)
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2019 — Honorable Mention in the Series of 4 Photos Club Competiton for the series "Ospreys at Blue Cypress Lake", Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA)
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2019 — Merit Award as "Expert Pictorialist" awarded by the Montreal Camera Club
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2020 — Merit Award in the Fall Open Club Competition for "Faces of the Monastery", Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA)
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2021 — Honorable Mention in the Series of 4 Photos Club Individual Competiton for the series "More than Skin Deep, Women of Rajasthan", Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA)
2021 — Catherine Rasmussen Trophy for Best Audio-Visual Presentation: "Faces of Rajasthan" Classes 'A' & 'B'), Montreal Camera Club
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2021 — Steve Lash Trophy for Street (Photojournalism) Image of the Year (Classes 'A' & 'B'), Montreal Camera Club
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2021 — Fred Burgess Memorial Trophy for the Class A member having the highest aggregate score for Pictorial Images submitted.
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2022 — Honours Award orable Mention in the 2022 Individual Series of 4 Competition - "Raptors, Lethal Beauty". Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA).
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2023 — Merit Award in the CAPA Photojournalism Club Competition, Theme: Environmental Issue
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2024 - 2025 — Mutiple awards from the Universe of Colour Photography, the Club of Black & White Photography, Foto Arte, and Int' Art of Photography,
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2025 — Honorable Mention in the 2025 Individual Challenge "Mastery of Light". Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA).
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Awards
2018 — Winner of Gold Certificate in the Open Theme Club Competition for "Evening Cattle Roundup", Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA)
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​2018 — Catherine Rasmussen Trophy for Best Slideshow: "Cambodia, Past & Present" (Classes 'A' & 'B'), Montreal Camera Club
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Exhibitions & Festivals
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