ABOUT MICHELLE De LONG

I started working with still film photography when I was a pre-teen with my grandfather's polaroid camera.  I received a BA in Mass Media Communications from University of Akron,  where I studied still photography, television  and film production, radio broadcasting and theatre. My mother gave me a Pentax K100 as a college graduation present and  from there I took off. In the early 1990s, I studied Film Production at the London Film School and traveled a lot through the UK, Europe and Eastern Europe.   I spent the first 15 years of my career in television at NBC News as a video editor, winning two Emmys and I founded my thriving Video/Television Production Company Mimi Productions  in 1996.  For many years  because of the change from film negative to digital, I put my still film art aside.  My favorite film is Ilford B&W 35mm  and happily Ilford is producing this film.  I found a darkroom to develop film and  make silver halide prints, so I have dusted off my old negatives and armed myself with an antique SLR.  The photos on this site are my work from the 1980s and 1990s with newer work starting in 2023.