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Back in time
For 25 years, I’ve kept my Nikon around the house loaded with a fresh roll of Tri-X film, always ready to photograph my three children. I’ve recorded the simple moments…just everyday life. The children...
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Santa Fe Photographic Workshops: Portraits: A Personal Style, October 26 –...
I’m looking forward to being back at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and teaching a four day class entitled, “Portraits: A Personal Style”. The weather will be beautiful and the class will be a lot...
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University of Houston Victoria, ABR features Hard Ground, Oct. 13th
O’Brien will be the first-ever photographer to speak in the University of Houston-Victoria/American Book Review Fall Reading Series. His talk will begin at noon Oct. 13 in the Alcorn Auditorium of UHV...
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Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
I started photography by photographing my friends: Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Andy Hummel and Jody Stephens. The year was 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee. They had formed a band called Big Star and needed...
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Tulane University School of Social Work Presentation
I will be giving a presentation sponsored by the Tulane University School of Social Work. If you like to attend, you can register on Facebook.
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Esquire Magazine, Santa Fe to Moscow
Esquire Magazine has done a 12 page feature on Hard Ground, Esquire Russia…….that is. Here is a link to the webversion. I was curious how the Russian version of Esquire discovered Hard Ground. The...
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Portraits:Texas Ranchers Remember An Epic Drought
Eugene "Boob" Kelton, 80, is an Upton County rancher and brother of writer Elmer Kelton. Claire O’Neill edits and writes a remarkable blog on NPR entitled The Picture Show. She featured a set of...
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Santa Fe Photographic Workshop
Portraits: A Personal Style with Michael O’Brien March 27 – March 30, 2013 Defining your personal approach to portraiture, refining and perfecting your own photographic vision and style, is a life-long...
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
My photograph of Lady Bird Johnson is part of the exhibition, The Artist’s Palette: Primary Colors on Paper, at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from March 5-June 9, 2013. Below is the story on the...
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The Great Minds of Investing
This landmark book provides a rich array of perspectives on 33 of the greatest investors of our time. It features William Green’s extraordinary profiles of investors such as Joel Greenblatt, Howard...
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