M I C H A E L C A M P B E L L
MICHAEL COLIN CAMPBELL is an international award-winning photographer and digital artist whose work is exhibited and sold in galleries in England and America. He started his photographic career, after leaving a 500 year old boys school in England, as a research scientist at the Kodak research lab in London, where he worked on photographic color reproduction. After a year, he left to attend university and pursue his love for the sciences. Michael studied physics, geology, zoology and astrophysics, and eventually completed his thesis for a masters degree in geology by studying the oldest rock formations in Britain on the island of Iona in the Hebrides of Scotland. Despite his training in science his hobbies and interests were mainly in the Arts and sport.
Michael's name appeared several times in the Guiness Book of World records. He represented his country in the national sport of cricket while still at school and then went on to become and international athlete as the UK high jump champion and record holder. He also represented his university in golf, tennis, squash, table tennis and chess.
It was the fact that he was competing regularly for Britain in the international track and field team that kept him from leaving England to become a geologist, as he graduated just prior to the Mexico Olympic games, so he returned to Kodak, where for four years he taught photographic technology to students from all over the world at the Kodak Photographic School. In the 70s he left Kodak to teach documentary film production at the college in Salisbury.
Shortly after his move to Wiltshire, he bought a 200 year old abandoned school house from the landowner and ex-prime minister Sir Anthony Eden, Sir Anthony needed a portrait for a book cover and became Michael's first commercial portrait client. Michael rebuilt the school house and designed and made all the furniture and landscaped the garden himself. While teaching he worked part time as a freelance documentary film cameraman and sound recordist for the BBC.
His hobbies were painting and landscape photography and in 1979 he decided to take a sabbatical and write articles on the photography of Paul Caponigro and Ansel Adams in the USA. He decided to stay a while in California and became a professor at Cal Poly State University for several years.
He bought his first Macintosh in 1984 and became interested in the possibility of using it with photography. He has been specializing in portraiture in his own business in San Diego, where he lives with his ten year old son Alex . but Michael is now publishing and selling limited editions of digital photographic work ranging from black and white landscapes to still life and figurative work. His web site is : www.michaelcampbell.com. email Michael@michaelcampbell.com
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