Michael Massaia

Born In New Jersey, 1978.  Michael Massaia is a fine art photographer and printmaker whose work focuses on New Jersey, And New York City life and landscape.  

Michael specializes in large format black and white photography and large format Platinum / Palladium printing.  All of his images are true "one shot" scenes that have been pushed to their limit via film developing and printmaking techniques to reveal the true way each moment was felt.  
Working primarily in the hours before the sun rises, Michael tries to show a living, heightened environment that can only been seen at it's most vacant...

"The hour the world retreats".