Michael Nicholas Paras

I'm a photographer/videographer; it’s what I do.

Not everything looks like what it appears to be at first glance – I want my images/videos to resonate with an immediate emotional pull bringing in the viewer. Tolstoy observed that any art, in order to actually be art, must above all be infectious. 

A work must create an immediate visceral response, an electric sense of recognition that is instantaneous whether or not that recognition is immediately understood.

Depending on the location, finding the significance of the subject enables the thrill of finding and creating the perfect shot and video.

I would hope that my photographs/videos tell the story of inspiration, motivation, hard work, team spirit, dreams, and achievement; touching the hearts of the entire world—and eliciting important core feelings that all works of art evoke.