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About
This company really started by a sixteen year-old junior in high school. It began to take shape in a very eclectic sort of way. I picked up photography accidentally as a nineteen year-old sophomore (almost) at Notheastern University. I had studied freshman year at Keene State College.
I took to photography like a fish to water. I just loved it. I had come from a factory mentality which in some ways prepared me for college and sometimes didn't. My general impression was that art photography wasn't the way to go because it wasn't marked as a trade. Photojournalism in my mind was. I assumed Northeastern had it. They didn't! I was kind of lost for awhile so I looked at BU and liked it. They had the third ranked Journalism school in the country at the time.
I took a year and a half off to work in a warehouse and buy the equipment that I needed. My father told me frankly, "It's your third school and fourth major. I still believe in you but you have to grow up." The deal was, he picked up the education and the equipment was mine. I went after it with relish, I bought the equipment myself and a car or a facsimile thereof.
BU taught me a great deal about life and photography. Most of the time photography came first. My vernacular can change within the audienace but my pictures never change. My best part of it is the sharing that goes on within a group of people when they see my pictures. I stand way in the back just within ear shot to hear observations. A bird's eye view from a person is enlightening and candid. My name is Mike Maloni and I'm the Chief Photographer of Americanview Photo.
I have photographed The Holyoke Blue Sox, The New England Mutiny, The WMASS Men's and ladies Pioneers, and am doing a photo-essay on the Amherst College Men's Basketball Team for the 2008-2009 season.
I have been selected to photograph the East Regional for Div 1 Men's College Hockey! The event is opened on March 26-27. The photos will be displayed on this web site from March 28-April 17 2009
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