MICHAEL HINTLIAN

Michael Hintlian is an American photographer based in Boston. His work has appeared in major U.S. newspapers and international periodicals, and has been widely exhibited and collected. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University, and was awarded a Traveling Fellowship from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The fellowship supported his photographic work in the former Soviet satellite states of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia in the period following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Early in his career, Hintlian balanced commercial assignments with personal projects and long-term documentary work. By the late 1990s, he shifted his focus entirely to personal projects, beginning an ambitious, seven-year documentation of Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project, commonly known as the Big Dig. This body of work was published in 2004 as Digging: The Workers of Boston’s Big Dig (Commonwealth Editions).

Since 2005, Hintlian has worked primarily in Boston, with extended periods in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, producing a significant body of photographs examining contemporary American life. Alongside his photographic practice, he has maintained a longstanding commitment to teaching, having served on the faculties of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The New School for Social Research; and Parsons School of Design in New York.

He is currently an Instructor of Photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a position he has held for the past six years.