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Michael Hawley has a background in the fields of publishing, film, and online media. He is a writer who has been creating content for the Internet since the mid-1990s for outlets from People magazine online to e-commerce sites. He currently creates websites for major studio films and has won numerous awards for this online work, including Cleo Key Art, W3, and Webby Awards, among others.  

Michael is the head of the Photographs Council at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and a founding board member and Chairman of the Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles. His eclectic photography collection has been growing since the early 1990s and includes classic twentieth-century works, but is ever leaning toward contemporary photography. He has served as a guest curator and as a judge for various photography awards over the past several years.  

Michael was raised outside the United States in Australia, Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East and is a graduate of Stanford University. 

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