Iris Imaging

Photographer and activist Michael L. McCray

Skills:

• Medical Photographer (ophthalmic, surgical, microscopic, and macro photography)
• Photo Editor
• Photojournalist
• Architectural Photographer
• Videographer
• Photo-essayist
• Photo-illustrator
• Fine Arts photographer
• FAA Part 107 UAS Pilot

Military:
Basic Training Fort Polk, Louisiana 1971
Army Advanced Infantry Training Center (Tigerland) Fort Polk, Louisiana 1971
US Army Infantry "Imjin Scout" DMZ Korea 1971-72

Education:
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Photo-illustration

Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah 
Biology, Chemistry
Sky Diving Club

Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio 
Emergency Medical Technician

Organizations:
First Baptist Church Elyria
Lorain County Township Association - Affiliated
Sons of American Revolution (past member)
Lorain County Chamber of Commerce (soon former)

Professional Organizations: (past no active)
National Press Photographers Association, Society of Professional Journalists, Biological Photographers Association, Ophthalmic Photographers Society, Christians in Photojournalism

Former Board Member: Prevent Blindness Ohio, Elyria Arts Council

Other Photography Experience:
Bay Photo & Printing, photographed all real estate in Northern Lorain and Northwest Cuyahoga County for the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). 
College Yearbook Photography for Yearbook Associates
Volunteer Photo Essay-editor Open Directory Project 

Photojournalism & Photo-essays:
Homelessness 1983 through 1998 
Conflicts: Afghan-Soviet War, Salvadoran Civil War 1984-1988

Ophthalmic & Medical Photography:
Fairview Eye Center ophthalmic photography, retinal angiography, and website content management.
Retina Vitreous Associates ophthalmic photography and Optical coherence tomography
Cleveland Eye Clinic Position Community Outreach Coordinator screen over 45,000 people for glaucoma in NE Ohio along with ophthalmic photography surgical and marketing photography
Started Iris Imaging originally to process retinal angiograms for hospitals and ophthalmology practices in NE Ohio  
Photographer for Collaborative Ocular  Melanoma Study randomized trial of iodine 125 brachytherapy  for choroidal  melanoma
North Shore University Hospital ophthalmic photography and microscopic photography, 
King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital ophthalmic photography
Cleveland Clinic Foundation: ophthalmic photography
Akron City Hospital ophthalmic photography
(ophthalmic photography includes retinal, fundus, corneal, plastics, and a variety of other medical photographic techniques)

Publications:
Over the years my still photographs, articles, and interviews, have appeared in numerous publications: SAR Magazine, Homeless Grapevine, Review of Refractive Surgery (cover first issue), Review of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology Times, Diabetic Forecast, Advance For Physician Assistants, Akron Beacon Journal Sunday Magazine (Afghanistan and Ohio Nature) Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Pakistan Times, Saudi Gazette, and other publications worldwide.

Current Photo-Essay Project:
My current photo essay project is a photoblog on Lorain County Ohio. It is a work in progress, which started with me photographing along Ohio State Route 301 which I traveled between Elyria, and Mansfield, Ohio 3 days a week over 10 years. I had over 500 images when I removed it. Most of the images (over 500) were in Lorain County which I have yet to repost on the web and have created hundreds more.

Past & Present Commercial and Personal Website Projects:
OhioSeniors.com (Cleveland Plain Dealer article on prior site) (still own domain no content)
Glaucoma Project (glaucoma was the political disease foundation of medical marijuana, it is still not recognized by the eye care industry as treatment)
Kill Demand (drug demand reduction)
Just off Ohio State Route 301, Ohio Nature will be re-installing in the near future.
Created and virtually hosted websites for the following sectors: manufacturing, retail, financial, medical, and social services organizations

Medical & Other Projects
City of Cleveland Clinic Doctors King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital Saudi Arabia, St. Vincent Charity Hospital Cleveland, Ohio
Eye Care for Cleveland supporters Barbara Bush, Mayor Michael White, Bishop Antony Pilla, Cleveland Eye Clinic, Cole Vision, County Prosecutor Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Tim Hagan Cuyahoga County Commissioner

Volunteering:
Vision Screening Health Care for the Homeless
Drug and Alcohol Ministry
Marketing for Afghan Mujideen Soviet-Afghan War.

Exhibitions
Individual Showings (incomplete list)
Afghanistan: The Forgotten War 1986
Octagon Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.

Birds in Flight 1995
Lorain Metro Parks, Carlisle, Ohio

Birds & Bugs Hand-Tinted Photography 1996
Garfield Nature Center, Cleveland Metroparks Garfield, Ohio 

Just off Ohio State Route 301
Lorain Historical Society, Lorain, Ohio 2017

Just off Ohio State Route 301 & Retrospective
Elyria Arts Council, Elyria, Ohio 2018

 Group Showing of Photographs:
(that I recall the date)

Annual National Juried Show 1980
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio 

American Academy of Ophthalmology
Ophthalmic Photographers Society 
1986 

Lazarus a Vision of Hope (link PDN article) (organizer of the show with 9 other photographers)
The City Mission, traveling exhibition 1992.

"Long Lives“ 1994 Aging (commissioned work)
Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio

Homelessness; a view from the street
A traveling exhibit, 1996.

Homeless Still: A Second View of the Streets 1997
Lightkeepers Gallery, Lakewood, Ohio

Lorain Historical Society “At Home and Abroad: OUR MILITARY FORCES
Exhibit June 6 - September 9, 2017”.