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Michael Hanson
Michael Hanson is an award winning photographer based in Seattle, WA and was recently named one of the World's Top Travel Photographers by Popular Photography Magazine. Michael's photography career began while playing baseball in the Atlanta Braves farm system. His access to this unique lifestyle sparked a behind-the-scenes series that would eventually lead him to a career in photography. Michael's travel/lifestyle work has taken him on assignments to Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, British Columbia, and throughout the US. Michael has undertaken documentary projects investigating the changing lives of indigenous cultures in Ecuador (oil extraction), Guatemala (native artisans), Chile (mining), Lau Group, Fiji (marine exploitation), Rwanda (post-genocide photographers), Bolivia (lithium mining), Venezuela (chocolate production) and Ethiopia (coffee farming). Michael recently completed a 7-week book project documenting urban farming in the US. He has taught numerous photography workshops, including National Geographic Student Expeditions in the Sacred Valley, Peru. He was a judge for the 2010 and 2011 DC Fotoweek Photography contest.
His fine art images are part of the permanent archive at the Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Although his work has evolved from the first project on baseball, the passion for capturing people and their immediate landscapes in a clean, natural, documentary style remains at the core of Michael Hanson Photography.