ABOUT ZONE THREE PHOTOGRAPHY & THE PHOTOGRAPHER

From an early exploratory age Mike Lackey always had a passion for freezing time and chasing light. Every opportunity to capture the world around him was met with a disposable camera. Every trip to the grocery or drug store’s one-hour photo line was met with the same anticipation of Christmas Morning. This ambition and eagerness fueled Mike’s desire to become a photographer.

In 2012, Zone Three Photography was started as a passion project to share travel photography featuring landscapes, cityscapes and whatever else could be captured digitally while visiting different parts of the world.

Moving beyond the year 2012, Mike decided to expand his portfolio to include more genres of photography including macro, abstract, flat lay, street, architecture and shooting subject matter others may overlook or may not be interested in to develop his own sense of style and technique.

Zone Three Photography is a compilation of Mike’s work from the early 2000’s to present time showcasing a variety of subject matter and post production approaches.

It would be unfair to leave the audience in the dark regarding the name. Zone Three derived from a La-Z-Boy recliner. It was plum in color and purchased by Mike’s parents for a relative in West Virginia who was in hospice care. The funding for the chair came from this relatives bank account and was bought so she could live her last days in supreme comfort.

Once this relative said goodbye to Planet Earth, the La-Z-Boy made its way into Mike’s basement where it was enjoyed by his friends during band practice, watching sporting events or in battle mode on the N64 or Xbox.

This was a fancy recliner. It had build in massage functions and heating. Zone Three on the remote was to massage the southern-most hemisphere of the human body. Inevitably, for whatever reason, this was everyone’s favorite function and thus the chair was nick-named, “Zone Three.”

Zone Three was also the boarding zone Mike was in at the Atlanta, Georgia airport whilst flying home to beautiful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He put the two together and dubbed his photography venture, “Zone Three Photography.” Bearing an unfortunate last name, it had a better ring to it than, “first name, last name photography.”

The plum-colored La-Z-Boy now resides in a landfill in Los Angeles where Mike spent a few years. It may actually reside in the middle of the Pacific ocean in that ring of plastic. Perhaps it was incinerated. God only knows at this point. Regardless, Zone Three the recliner will live on vicariously through Mike’s photography.

If you would like to support the artist, please contact Mike @ zonethreephotography [@] protonmail [dot] com with the Subject Line, “Print Inquiry” and let us know which images you are interested in. Please leave your name and phone number. We can work out prints, types of prints, etc.

-Mike Lackey, owner of Zone Three Photography