Michael Eastman began his career as a fine art photographer over thirty years ago. The St. Louis native has traveled throughout Europe and Cuba to shoot his architectural and landscape photographs. He has also been equally inspired by life in MIssouri, where he resides. In 1999, Eastman begain a series of horse portraits. That work is represented int he monograph Horses, published by Knopf in 2003.

Eastman's work is in many collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography in New York City, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Eastman has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and has been published in Time, The New York Times, Life, and American Photographer.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth TX
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston MA
George Eastman Photography Collection, Rochester NY
The High Museum, Atlanta GA
International Center of Photography, New York NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City MO
Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, San Diego CA
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City MO
New Orlean Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
The Polaroid Collection, Cambridge MA
Rockefeller Collection, New York NY
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco CA
St Louis Art Museum, St Louis MO