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| Michael O'Brien is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He chose Austin as his home a dozen years ago when he left NewYork City, where he had lived and worked as a magazine photographer for fourteen years. He began his career as a staff photographer for the Miami News, where he won two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and a World Understanding Award for his black-and-white photographs of the disadvantaged. O'Brien, who still shoots portraits for a living, has photographs in the permanent collections of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern & Mexican photography at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography in New York. Bright Sky titles: The Face of Texas |