One Eyeland 2015 Award winner
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - NATURE - GOLD
http://oneeyeland.com/award_winners_2015.php

Michael Frisino studied visual anthropology, but worked professionally as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. After a long career in technology he has returned to his vocation in the visual arts. Always interested in other cultures and novel experiences, he lived for several years in St. Petersburg, Russia, and now lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Filmmakers and painters have influenced his visual sense more than other photographers; the films of German Expressionists, Herzog, Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, and the Coen Brothers, the art of El Greco, Chagall, Klee and Kandinsky.