About my work

Thanks for visiting my Portfolio. If you like these photos, there are many more on my IRVA (Inspired, Retired Visual Artists) website: https://www.irva.studio/michael-padwee-photographic-artist.html.

I was given my first camera--a Kodak Brownie--on my Bar Mitzvah, and I have carried a camera almost continually since then. I used my camera to document the anti-Vietnam War, the anti-nuclear movement, and the New York City labor movement from the 1960s to the 1980s. As a member of the “Minority Photographers” group in the 1970s, I participated in a number of exhibits throughout New York City and Westchester County, including New York's "Bus Show" in 1975, as well as a one-person show, “Mindscapes and Other Memorabilia”, at The Darkroom Gallery in Manhattan. Two of my photos were published in the magazine Women: a Journal of Liberation, and more recently, one of my photos, "Moondog", was published in a literary magazine, The Oxford American. In 2012 one of my photo collages was the cover art work for the internet art and poetry magazine Inertia. During the past few years, I have been exhibiting my photos in local venues in New York City, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as internationally in Barcelona. More of my architectural photos can be seen throughout my blogs, "Architectural tiles, glass and ornamentation in New York" (https://tilesinnewyork.blogspot.com/) and "A Sometime Architourist" (https://architurist.blogspot.com/).

The pandemic gave me some space to work experimentally with surrealistic and abstract manipulation of photos, some of which are presented in my first gallery. Gallery #2 contains some of my black and white photos from the 1960s and 1970s, and Gallery #3 contains small works that have been printed on aluminum panels.

Contact: mpadweephotos@gmail.com.