Biography

Alyssia Lazin’s passion for photography has followed her from one side of the camera lens to the other. After college in Washington D.C., she moved to New York City, was discovered and represented by the prestigious Ford Model Agency and worked internationally as a photographic model gracing the pages of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Mademoiselle. Numerous classes fueled her fascination for photography and a burgeoning artistic talent led to silk-screening her images as artwork sold in galleries across the United States.

Lazin shifted her focus and was selected to the graphic design program in the Art and Architecture Department of Yale University. As one of 11 students, she went on to earn her MFA and thereafter, returned to Manhattan with a fellow classmate to launch Lazin & Katalan, a graphic design studio. Notable clients included American Express, IBM, Sony, Goldman Sachs, Tiffany & Co., the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United States Postal Service and Harvard University. Numerous accolades included design awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Her firm produced elegant, high quality work designing corporate branding, publications and promotional materials. Lazin’s supremely refined eye for photography was an integral part of her design accomplishment. Following 25 years of success she transitioned from the design business to become an art photographer.

Lazin and her husband Pavel Kapic, an abstract painter born in Prague, work from their studios based between Lucca, Italy and Sarasota, Florida. Extensive global travels influence her unique abstractions captured from commonplace reality. Sophisticated imagery transforms an ordinary subject with architectural sense into a painterly photographic image. Having made her own paper for her black and white images, her present choice of imported watercolor paper is intrinsic to her photographic expression.

Lazin’s photographic images convey a compelling visual energy without any further computer-based digital manipulation. Her lens to the world captures a rare mystique. Prominent galleries and avid collectors throughout the U.S. and Europe prize her work for painterly beauty and visual poetry.