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Michael Sisak is an award-winning photojournalist who covers news, features and sports in the New York metropolitan area. He is available for staff, contract and freelance work and can travel to assignments throughout the region.
Sisak has worked as a freelancer for nearly a decade, and his work has appeared in various publications including: The New York Times, Newsday, the Detroit Free-Press, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.), Soccer America and Inside Lacrosse. His corporate/university clients have included Digital Imaging Events, Penn State, Hofstra and Stony Brook universities, and the New York Mets.
From March 2004 to March 2005, while still an undergraduate, Sisak worked as a full-time photographer and reporter for Long-Islander Newspapers, a chain of weeklies in Huntington, N.Y. While there, he won six awards from the New York Press Association — five for photography and one for spot news reporting.
As a student at Hofstra University, Sisak contributed photographs to the student newspaper, Hofstra Chronicle and served as the photo editor for Pulse, the student magazine. His images in the Fall 2006 issue of Pulse earned first place honors in the photography category at the Newsday School Journalism Awards. He has also covered campus visits by former president Bill Clinton, former attorney general John Ashcroft and the acclaimed author Salman Rushdie.
Sisak is fully digital with Canon bodies and a compliment of lenses, lighting, media storage and transmission capabilities. Please see his résumé (PDF) for more details.
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