About
Michael T. Middleton is a self-taught photographer whose portrait work focuses on the ability of the still image to tell multi-layered stories that vary based on the outlook of the viewer. He is especially interested in the concept of building stories from items that are brought together randomly at the last minute to form a seemingly cohesive whole, as well as in light's ability to change the interpretation of a moment. His style is heavily influenced by photographers ranging from Henri-Cartier Bresson to Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
He began in landscape and street photography, and has done work on six continents and in nearly every US state. His work has been shown in galleries including the Darkroom Gallery and PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont, and in 2011, the first three images from his Absent Friends series were an Official Selection in the Prix de la Photographie in Paris, France. His work has also appeared online on numerous sites ranging from F-Stop Magazine to PhotoVogue.
His presentation Poverty: Lessons Learned from Photography was first presented at Rutgers University in 2012, and he has since presented it to groups at Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick Universities, the University of Birmingham, and at Imperial College in London, with numerous further dates planned at these and other universities in the 2013-14 school year.
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