Featured Artist:
Michael Northrup

We are pleased to feature the photography of Baltimorean Michael Nothrup in our Summer 2007 issue. His work has been featured in Wired, The Washington Post Magazine, Washingonian, New York Times, Baltimore City Paper, and Der Speigel, and others. His book Beautiful Ecstacy is available from J&L Books. More work can be viewed at his website.

"I love irony...not exclusively but I have a special appreciation for it. And it underlies a lot of my work. I must have gotten it from my mother as she would laugh at news stories like "Santa looses fingers while stepping off helicopter to wave at kids." And my dad, being a doctor, surgeon, and corner, would bring humor to the dinner table on things like bowel obstructions and suicides. Both my parents were great at extracting humor out of tragedy and that has given me a way of seeing life. For me, creating images is only an arm's length away. It’s all about my daily experiences and the personal vision I bring to that photographic process of extracting images from reality."—Michael Northrup