Michael Hanson is an award-winning Pacific Northwest-based photographer and filmmaker. Michael's photography career began while playing professional baseball in the Atlanta Braves Organization. His in-depth storytelling work has taken him around the world for clients such as The NewYork Times, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Outside Magazine, Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, Apple, Esquire and Starbucks. He has taught workshops in South America and on the Columbia River as a Nat Geo Expert on National Geographic Expeditions. Michael’s series, Portraits of the Omo, from Ethiopia remains in the Sir Elton John Permanent Collection. In recent years, he has turned his focus to fine-art photography and an ongoing series, The Way West, looking at the history, culture and geography of the Columbia River Gorge and beyond. His series has been on display at the Columbia Center for the Arts and 301 Gallery in Hood River, Oregon.

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