Specialties
Editorial,
Photojournalism,
Travel
Bio
Michael Barrientos is a documentary photographer based in Maputo, Mozambique.
In 1993, he began a journalism career in Central California working as a news writer
but switched his discipline to photography and has worked on newspapers staffs across
the United States including the San Antonio Express-News,The Sarasota Herald-Tribune
and The New York Times. He was a stringer for The Associated Press covering
the U.S./Mexico border in Texas and began his current freelance career based in Portugal in 2005.
His work has appeared in The New York Times,The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News,
USA Today, MSNBC, The Independent Magazine, His non-editorial clients range from corporate
institutions such as Barclay's and Osram to non-profit organizations such as The International
Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs(ICAP), The HALO Trust, and Iris Ministries Inc.
Barrientos is a graduate of California State University-Fullerton and will finsh the MA program
in documentary photography and photojouralism at London College of Communication in late 2009.
He is working on a long-term project about coastal erosion in Maputo, He is represented by Polaris Images and maintains stock sales relationships with Alamy and Corbis.
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