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Michael Harlan Turkell, a once aspiring chef, now freelance photographer captures the inner workings of kitchens for his award-winning “BACK OF THE HOUSE” project, which documents the lives of chefs in their restaurant world.

As former photo editor of Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan, his recurring BACK OF THE HOUSE series appeared in the magazines from 2006 – 2011. Michael’s been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in Visual Storytelling, included in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers V2, (PowerHouse Books), received a Photo District News Photo Annual Award, and has his photos printed in an array of publications, and cookbooks. He also hosts a show on HeritageRadioNetwork.com called THE FOOD SEEN, which he brings together guests working at the intersections of food and art.

He has photographed the “The New Brooklyn Cookbook”, for William Morrow/Harper Collins, Clinton Street Baking Co.’s cookbook for Little, Brown and Company, “Simple Food, Big Flavor” with Chef Aarón Sanchez for Atria/Simon & Schuster, and forthcoming titles such as Beginnings by Chris Cosentino of Incanto in San Francisco, CA for Weldon Owen, to be released on May 8, 2012; Anarchy in a Jar’s Jam On cookbook by Penguin (Summer 2012); and Joanne Chang of Flour Bakery in Boston, MA, Flour Too cookbook for Chronicle Books (Spring 2013). He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his in-house sommelier girlfriend, and a cat that has a beer named after it (Sixpoint Craft Ales’ Masons Black Wheat).