UNsung Winter Edition 2014 | Page 48

M ichael Mangano was a video game artist and Art Director for over 20 years, but the many nights he spent sleeping under his desk to make sure a game got out in time burned him out. Michael followed a new passion, which was photography, but he didn't want to be one of those basic portrait photographers. One day he took a photo of his best friend and manipulated it in Photoshop so it looked like she was in a fantasy world, and thus started his career as a fantasy artist. Michael is working with a costume shop now so he can let anyone be whatever they want to be, anywhere they can imagine. The only limitation Michael says he has is his own imagination.