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Mike Corrado

Mike Corrado has been a photographer and visual artist for over 35 years and has recently celebrated his 29th anniversary with Nikon USA. As the Manager of Nikon Professional Services- Product Marketing, Mike’s extensive career has included time as a Nikon School instructor, Pro Markets Technical Representative and Sr. Product Manager for digital SLR cameras. Mike has had the great fortune of training, working with and shooting for some of the world’s greatest photographers while contributing his own still images and video capture globally within Nikon for product promotion, educational materials, product brochures and Nikon’s USA web site. Several Nikon education DVDs that Mike has produced have won top industry honors while “A Hands-on Guide to Creative Lighting” reached record sales within weeks of hitting the market and remains Nikon’s greatest selling DVD of all time. Mike is also a contributing writer and photographer for Nikon World Magazine. Nikon has given Mike the opportunity to travel around the world to amazing locations including Japan, Germany, South Africa, and Vietnam. Assignments have taken him to several Super Bowls, World Series and Indy 500 races. He has covered the Kentucky Derby for 14 of 16 years and has worked with the New York Mets, New York Jets and other local professional sports teams.

Mike has spent the last several years working on his rock and roll portfolio “Rock Works” as a house photographer for Live Nation at Long Island’s Nikon at Jones Beach Theater where he has had access to shooting over 250 popular bands including the Police, Aerosmith, the Dave Matthew’s Band, Carlos Santana, Sting, Nickelback, Shinedown, KISS and more. His remote camera setups on the drum kits of some of the world’s most famous drummers including Daniel Adair of Nickelback, Barry Kerch of Shinedown, Greg Upchurch of 3 Doors Down and most recently Tommy Lee of Motely Crue continue to get national acclaim and recognition within the music industry.