It's easy to be a critic. You just need to have an opinion and a soapbox to spout it from. But when I listen to or read someone's opinions I want to know what combination of knowledge and experience allows them to hold forth on a given topic. Since I pontificate on many subjects in various essay and reviews on this site I figure that you deserve to knew a bit about who I am and what experience I bring to the table in each of these areas.

Michael ReichmannPhoto © 2004 Doug Brown_______________________________________________________

— started making my living as a professional photographer some 40 years ago

— had my first fine-art / documentary gallery one-man show in 1963, with numerous exhibitions since

— in recent years exhibitions at the Pikto Gallery in Toronto; 2004, 2005, and 2006

— operated my own fine-artphotography gallery and teaching studio in Toronto, Canada from 2007 – 2010

— first of several television docu...