As the son of a Polaroid executive, Michael has been immersed in photography his entire life. In 1990, he turned his passion for photography into a profession.Early in his career, he worked for several national portrait corporations. In 1992, he purchased a high-end portrait photography business in Topsfield, Massachusetts. He has exhibited his fine art photography in both group and solo shows for the past four decades and, in 2014, began focusing solely on his fine art business.

Michael has also taught photography at Endicott College since 1995. He is a Photography Professor and Chair of the Visual Communications. In 2002, he designed and taught Endicott's first digital photography class. He teaches digital photography at all levels, as well as portraiture and fine art photography courses. He has also managed a digital print lab, photography studio, and digital editing labs in his previous position as a Manager of Digital Technologies. He has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from Boston College.

As the “son of a son of a sailor,” Michael has always been drawn to the sea, and most of his fine-art photography reflects this. He spent his childhood summers sailing on Cape Cod Bay and lives in Beverly, MA. He is immersed daily in the beauty of the light by the sea.