I love irony... not exclusively, but I have a special appreciation for it.  And it underlies a lot of my work.  I must have been especially influenced by my mother who would laugh at news stories like, “Santa looses fingers while stepping off helicopter to wave at kids”.  During the 50's my older brother told me all the science fiction and horror movies we were seeing were documentaries.  And my dad, being a doctor, surgeon, and coroner, would bring humor to the dinner table on things like bowel obstructions and suicides.  My whole family was great at extracting humor out of tragedy and that has given me a way of seeing life.  For me creating images is all about my daily life, those meaningful pictures I’m able to extract from it, and the personal photographic vision I bring to those visual narratives .

Born Michael Edgar Northrup 1948, Marietta, Oh /BFA Photo 1971 Ohio Univ., MFA Photo 1980 Chicago Art Institute/ Teaching 1980-1990-Univ. of Virginia, Shepherd Univ., Northwestern Univ., / Opened Strobophoto Studio 1990 Baltimore/ Artwork and Commercial work shown and published Internationally.