Michael V. Messina is an educator and award winning fine art and figurative photographer who has studied with the San Francisco Academy of Art University and had his work exhibited internationally. Having been influenced by a number of the of master artists from the Renaissance, Romantic, and Pre-Raphaelite art periods, he gravitates towards creating narrative based and classical themed imagery that is as much painting as it is photograph. His figurative work embraces the timeless beauty of the nude form using his signature painterly style in addition to creating traditional black and white...more
