Exhibitions

In 2000, Mike collaborated with Mika Manninen and Helena Lumme to bring their internationally acclaimed exhibition to the Cannes Film Festival.

Based on their major photo exhibits at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, award-winning authors Lumme and Manninen reveal the hidden talents behind Hollywood's most famous films. Forty-eight leading screenwriters are introduced in brilliant portrait photography and their own revealing words. From Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard), Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest), and Robert Towne (The Firm) to Oliver Stone (Platoon), Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) and Richard La Gravanese (The Horse Whisperer), 18 Academy Award winners and another 18 nominees are featured among these remarkable color and black & white portraits.

Screenwriters: America's Storytellers in Portrait at Amazon.com

Before finding fame as a director of films such as Women in Love, Tommy and The Devils, Russell worked as a freelance photographer, and began taking photographs in 1951, aged 23.

Although these are among of the first photographs to capture fledgling youth culture in London, they remained unseen for 50 years, and were only rediscovered in an archive in 2005.

Mike brought Ken Russell to Istria to the Motovun Film Festival and created the environment for Galerie Makina to have Ken’s photos in Pula the same year.

Galerija Makina at TimeOut Croatia