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 so far on this site are my previous work mainly from the 1980s and 1990s.  I will be adding recent work soon.