Michael ray photographer biography

Michael Rayner (photographer)

Australian press photographer and photojournalist

Michael Rayner (born 1951) is an Australian press photographer and photojournalist.

Biography

Michael Rayner was born in Stockport UK in 1951, 18 months before his parents Alan and Dorothy migrated with him to the industrial Melbourne bayside suburb Altona, as "Ten Pound Poms". During his teenage years Rayner worked a newspaper delivery round. His education at Altona Primary and Altona High limited his study options in his areas of interest; current affairs and news.

News photographer

Having failed his Matriculation, Rayner responded to an advertisement for a cadet photographer in The Age requiring a lesser qualification of a school Leaving certificate. Though his photographic experience was minimal, Rayner's knowledge of politics secured him a position along with four others from a field of 250 applicants. He commenced on Tuesday 31 December 1968.[1] Ron Lovitt,[1] the pictorial editor who employed him and took a famous picture of the last ball of the

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The artist

Born in 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, Michael Ray Charles currently lives and works in Austin, Texas, USA, and Gent, Belgium. He spent most of his youth in California and Louisiana. He studied design and advertising for three and a half years before being awarded a BFA degree in 1989. He went on to obtain an MFA in 1993 at the University of Houston, Texas, before teaching at the University of Texas in Austin. In 2014, he joined the faculty of the University of Houston. His work features in a wide range of public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Arizona State University Art Museum and San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas.



BirthBorn in 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

ResidencyLives and works in Austin, Texas, USA and Gent, Belgium
Education1993 - MFA, University of Houston, Texas, USA



1989 - BA, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Los Angeles, USA



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