ASMP Member Profile:

Michael Downend

HATTIE FILMS

Photojournalist (Member: ASMP, NPPA, EP) and scriptwriter (Member: Writers Guild of America, Dramatists Guild, PEN). Licensed pilot: AOPA #460890. Former US Marine; graduate Royal Marine Commando School, Lympstone, Devon. Lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains. Writer/narrator of award-winning PBS documentary, A JOURNEY TO THE ENDLESS MOUNTAINS and other programs. MIN, his play for radio, recently broadcast on NPR, is the first in a series about women--ordinary and heroic--commissioned by public radio. AN AMERICAN WIFE, his stage play written in collaboration with his wife, novelist, playwright and poet, Karen Blomain, premiered with an Equity production to sold-out performances at The Electric Theatre Company. Recipient of OADR, Rockefeller Grant for his play, THE MOLA MOLA FISH and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowships. Among his photo credits Downend has book covers, one-man and group shows. Honored for photo and narrative coverage of the March for Soviet Jewry in Washington, DC. Developing book project, LOS NINOS DE MEXICO, as one in series, CHILDREN OF THE WORLD, in collaboration with his wife. Shooting in Mexico in 2010 for new book. Accepting other international assignments for photography and writing. Has contacts from Moscow (wife teaches at The Diplomatic Academy of Moscow) to Mexico.
In Mexico from January 2010 until May 2010.

ASMP Chapter: Philadelphia