Hello
You could say I have had two jobs in my life. When I was in the seventh grade I had a paper route, and when I graduated from college I became a photographer.
Take a look.
Well-Known People
Athletes, politicians, artists of all kinds—people we recognize on sight. For these subjects, I am usually on assignment from editors or clients whose expectations need to be met. This is my job, and not a chance to meet a new best friend. It is hard to resist being awestruck in the presence of a celebrity, but I remind myself that the famous are not all that different from the rest of us. In other words, I try to photograph well-known people the same way I photograph lesser-known people.
Lesser-Known People
In photographing people there is the constant balancing act of needing to make something happen and accepting the risk of just letting it happen. You are looking through the camera, it's focused, you have your finger on the button, but what you see isn't quite right. You waste a few frames to keep your subject interested, to show you are still interested. I wait for the small space between the awkward moments and the moment of grace when people relax and right in front of your camera, become themselves.
Reflections
Recently it occurred to me that I had spent a lot of time in the last 60 plus years looking at things through the viewfinder of a camera. "Reflections" is a chance to remember some of the situations I found myself in, and in another sense saying thank you to the people in these photographs.
Contact
Michael can be reached via email at michael.mauney@me.com.