Mike McCormick is a veteran of more than 40 years in television news in Los Angeles.  He retired from KNBC News in Burbank in 2002 after 36 years as a writer, field producer, and assignment editor.  In the mid-80s, McCormick won two local Emmys and a Golden Globe Award for investigative reporting and feature news production.

Upon retiring from NBC, McCormick went to work as a per diem news writer at KCBS/KCAL News, now located in Studio City.  He has since transferred to Technical Operations as the news division’s satellite coordinator and systems trainer.

For the past ten years, McCormick has also been a reserve public information office with FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  In that time, he has been deployed to natural disaster all over the country.  The photos shown in this exhibition were taken on deployment to the Ozarks of Northern Arkansas following last February’s tornadoes.

The closest McCormick ever came to taking photographs professionally was shooting pictures with a 4x5 Speed Graphic in the Navy – that was a long time ago – and more recently, shooting disaster and recovery photos for FEMA.

McCormick lives in Thousand Oaks with his wife Judith.