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Since the late 1960's, while in high school, I have had an avid interest in photography. My early pursuits centered around cultural portraiture, traveling extensively-particularly throughout the Near and Far East. My interest in the cultural work began as a student of anthropology at the University of Michigan. I did my first field work in photography for an independent project in India in 1972. Shortly after that, I met and became good friends with the late Maria Eisner, the mother of my best friend and founder of the international photography agency, Magnum. Through Maria, I learned in great detail of the work and lives of the great photojournalists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Andre Kertesz, Inge Morath, Margaret Bourke-White and W. Eugene Smith, who’s work I admired the most. This relationship together with my anthropology background and field work in India and Japan forged a lifelong interest in cultural photography. Over the years, with the development of newer techniques and the maturation of craft, I have evolved an approach of my own.
During the early years, my work focused sharply on the portrait. To me, it has always been the most intimate expression of cultural photography. More recently, I have started to explore a broader contextual framework and have been experimenting more with the forms and textures of my own environment as well as integrating a variety of new approaches to the medium itself.
My earlier work was mostly black and white and strongly subject and content driven. It depended greatly on the traditional skills of the chemical processing of quality black and white prints. More recently, I have started to explore color photography and the creative filtering capabilities of the digital darkroom. My goal is to distill a hybrid in which stylistic interpretation merges seamlessly with a true sense of photographic realsim.

Michael D. Weinman

Lake Mayer, Savannah

2005
Photograph

Lilac-Breasted Roller, Kenya

2006
Photography, archival print