ABOUT
| Mike Kane is a documentary/assignment photographer based in Seattle, the land of endless water and people who know how to stay dry. His path to photography began with that small-town midwest restlessness that takes hold at some point during high school and never really lets go. By the age of 19 he'd gotten himself 3K miles from home, teaching English in northern Nicaragua. A gift from his mom, her old Nikon FG, allowed him to see and process a world he could scarcely believe, and ultimately share it in ways far beyond the capabilties of words he could ever come up with. From that point forward the camera has pretty much led the way. After a good run as a newspaper staffer (SF Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Antonio Express-News) Mike became a freelancer in 2009 and has since been honored to work with socially conscious foundations and corporate clients, investigative journalism nonprofits, and award-winning publications. His pictures have been recognized by various national photo competitions, the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Languages: English, Spanish Select publications/clients: AOL News Bloomberg News Boston Globe Conde Naste Traveler Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine Le Figaro (Paris) Los Angeles Times Mother Jones MSNBC.com National Geographic Traveler National Public Radio NBCNEWS.com (PhotoBlog) Newsweek / Daily Beast New York Times San Francisco Chronicle Seattle Met Magazine Seattle Times USA Today Washington Post Wall Street Journal Wired.com Awards and recognition: 2012 NPPA BOP 1st Place Mag editing lifestyle/personality 2012 U of Denver Museum of Anthropology "Borderlines" 2011 Atlanta Photojournalism Sem., HM Picture Story 2011 Blue Earth Alliance, project sponsorship 2011 Colorado Photographic Arts Center "Borderlines" 2011 SPJ excellence in journalism, 1st place online video 2010 Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize, CDS, finalist 2009 Taylor Award, Nieman Foundation at Harvard, finalist 2009 Pulitzer Prize nomination, Seattle Post-Intelligencer 2005 Hearst Newspapers Journalism Fellowship 2004 CMYK Magazine, issue #25 2003 CMYK Magazine, issue #24 2003 Poynter Institute Visual Journalism Fellowship 2002 ProJex Gallery (Austin, TX), solo show 2002 Eddie Adams Workshop 2000 Maynard Owen Williams Award 1999 Beeler Fellowship Leo! |
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