BIOGRAPHY

   It began far back, in my younger years, from the moment I picked up my fathers camera. The art of photography captivated me, drew me in and has never let me go. I have had minimal schooling in the arts, high school courses at a magnet art school was my official training at best. The result of this project is from what I've learned myself. As it has been said, 'experience can be the best teacher.'
   To that truth I am a living example.
   In the later part of 1991 I found myself hopeless and lost in my life in Jacksonville. It has been my life long home, but at the time things were unbearable. I was miserable living anywhere but in Riverside and I had involved my self with artistic partners of questionable reputation. When a window of opportunity came I shed myself of that negative skin and moved to nearby Gainesville, FL. It was a refreshing change from the sinkhole that was then Jacksonville.
   Gainesville was a perfect host for my creative hunger to supple from. There I found a talented and innovative group of like minded people who all volunteered to help put together the culmination of my experience in publishing. So was born Movement Magazine. Aptly named after the New Order album "MOVEMENT." In May of 1992 the first issue was completed. It was then as it still is today, a free publication contributed to by the community around it and used by artist and writers alike as a palate of free expression.
   In these early days of the 21st century it seems like only moments ago that we took the first issue to the printer. Through the years I've been through hell and back, but have always managed to persevere. At times the only joy was being involved in some of these musicians lives and seeing the world from their perspectives and documenting it.
   This site is a pictorial scrapbook of my personal journey into the music machine. The majority of the images I shot with Minolta XG series cameras that I bought at pawn stores and the majority of my film is developed at one hour photo labs. I scanned all the photos personally and have attempted to present them for the web in the best way I can.
... I hope you enjoy my experience as much as I have.

Max Michaels