Michael Massaia’s photographs are imbued with a sense of beauty and mystery, as if images conjured from a dream.  In Afterlife New Jersey shore boardwalks are deserted and appear illuminated by an internal glow.  Conversely, the figures in Sheep Meadow float in a lush black void stripped of their context by Massaia’s expert printing techniques.

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