MICHAEL HANSON

Michael Hanson is an award-winning Pacific Northwest-based photographer and filmmaker. Michael's photography career began while playing professional baseball in the Atlanta Braves Organization. His in-depth storytelling work has taken him around the world for clients such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Outside Magazine, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Apple, Esquire and Starbucks. He has taught workshops in South America and on the Columbia River as a Nat Geo Expert on National Geographic Expeditions. Michael’s series, Portraits of the Omo, from Ethiopia remains in the Sir Elton John Permanent Collection.
Awards
POYi 2017
Communication Arts 2017
PDN30 2013
America's Top Travel Photographers, Popular Photography, 2011
Images of the Year, American Photo, 2009
Banff Film Festival, 2010
National Geographic Viewer's Choice, 2009
ADDY for MS Society TV Spot, 2013
FYI, Folio Eddie Award, 2009
Exhibits
Columbia Center for the Arts, The Way West, 2023
Fundación Konrad Adenauer, Last Herders of Apolobamba, 2021
Life, Annenburg Space for Photography, Selected Works, 2016
The Fence, Republic of Baseball, 2016
Featherstone Gallery, Portraits of the Omo, 2014
Sir Elton John Collection, Portraits of the Omo, 2012
Bare Hands Gallery, Nahuala, Guatemala, 2006
Selected Clients
The New York Times, Getty Images, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Outside Magazine, Agence France-Press, Apple, Starbucks, REI, Eddie Bauer, Nike, Patagonia, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Geographic Traveler + Adventure, Smithsonian
























