J Michael Lardizabal (b.1963, Philippines) has worked extensively with large-format classic Deardorff view  cameras up to 12"x20" capturing timeless landscapes, rural architecture and still lifes. Lardizabal's passion is the contact print and he is a master of platinum and cyanotype printing as well as on silver chloride AZO paper. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has 25 vintage photographs by Lardizabal in their collection through gifts from the The Annenberg Foundation and from acquisitions. Michael's work can also be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, the Chicago Art Institute, the Library of Congress Washington DC, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and many others.

He was represented by the Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles & the Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco.