Michael Hruska Photography

04/18/2026

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦."
-photographer 𝘞𝘺𝘯𝘯 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬(1902-1975)

04/11/2026

Me at Manasquan Inlet, New Jersey. Summer of 1971. I was 15 years old.
Photo by my cousin David Heffernan.

04/05/2026

“Manufacture Of Poison Gas Bombs”. 1932.
By Diego Rivera.

03/07/2026

Photos by: Michael Hruska Photography

02/22/2026

“The Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, whom they called "The Artist of Death", himself died today in 1731…[His] engravings blurred the boundary between scientific preservation and vanitas art.” - The Public Domain Review.

01/23/2026

The legendary Henri Cartier Bresson(“the decisive moment”)photographing in New Jersey for WNET public television. 1974.

01/22/2026

Places and scenes of urban living inspire photographers to record and interpret the ways in which people move and live in urban centres.

03/29/2025

“I search to photograph people and places that carry some memory of another event and lead me, like stepping stones, back and forth in time and space, between dreams and reality. I look for visceral connections, a chemistry of sorts, an essence or spark, the spirit of the thing”.- Sylvia Plachy

03/24/2025

The good ol’ days!

The SF Chronicle with an above the masthead headline that ran on this date in 1967.

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