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Michelle Kawka is a New York-based photographer specializing in portraiture, lifestyle, travel, advertising, public relations, product and architectural work for a wide variety of advertising and editorial clients. A Wesleyan graduate, and student of European literature, philosophy and history, she discovered her love of photography while studying Italian language in Padova, Italy. The success of the resulting senior essay and its accompanying photographic exhibit led her to further study of photographic arts at the New England School of Photography in Boston, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Since 2001, Michelle has been an active professional photographer, using her ...

Michelle Kawka is a New York-based photographer specializing in portraiture, lifestyle, travel, advertising, public relations, product and architectural work for a wide variety of advertising and editorial clients.

A Wesleyan graduate, and student of European literature, philosophy and history, she discovered her love of photography while studying Italian language in Padova, Italy. The success of the resulting senior essay and its accompanying photographic exhibit led her to further study of photographic arts at the New England School of Photography in Boston, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Since 2001, Michelle has been an active professional photographer, using her uniquely bold, graphic and emotional style for clients from coast to coast. In addition to her commercial work, she continues to pursue artistic projects. Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Hospital Center, the Gallery of Social and Political Art in Boston, and the Art-o-Mat in Long Island.

Most recently, she completed a series of 200 portraits for the website ThisIsOurQueens, a project depicting the lives of the people who live and work in her neighborhood, Queens, New York, which she describes as "the most diverse place on Earth." In 2007, her short film, "Animal Farm", an adaptation of Orwell's novel, screened at the Sunnyside Shorts Film Festival.