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2014 Art Fusion Galleries International Fine Arts Competition - 3rd Place Winner
Michael Katz was born in 1953 and raised in Brooklyn, New York and has been living in South Florida since 1995
At the age of 15, he received his first camera and fell in love with photography. When he was 16, his family built him a complete darkroom where he learned how to roll film, experimented with developing film in different ways, and made black/white & Sepia prints with the encouragement of his family for more than 16 years.
He attended the State University at Oswego New York where he received a B.S. degree in Elementary Education in 1975. After a career of 26 years in purchasing working for Fortune 100 corporations, in 2002 he decided to dedicate himself to one of his biggest passions, photography.
In 2002, he started taking food and interior photography for several well known restaurants throughout the country and his work has appeared in Food and Wine, Wine Spectator, Food Arts, Ocean Drive, USA Today, New York Times Magazine, Elite Traveler, Dining Out, Where Magazine, the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, Newsday, Gotham, GQ-UK and the South Beach Diet Book.
Michael loves to find natural lines in nature as well as images that have eye appeal. This spurred his passion for Fine Photographic Artwork. He takes every day images, impressions one may remember from the past, and using a selective tinting process, or a combination of light, contrast and monochromatic use of color, transforms them by applying his creative point of view, into unique pieces of art.
“I enjoy capturing the world through the eye of a camera and interrupting what my mind’s eye sees,”........Michael Katz.
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