About Us

Meet Max, the founder

Max at home, an ordinary phone photo — Before: Max at home

Max's portrait as a jungle adventurer on a riverboat at sunrise — After: his portrait

Yes, that's really me. One ordinary photo at home became this portrait. It's exactly what we do for you.

From live sports broadcasts to the space station, I've spent my life behind the camera and the controls.

In my twenties I worked at Fox Sports Network. I started as a video librarian and worked my way into the engineering department, doing almost every job there: cataloging, editing, playback, and uplinking and downlinking major sports broadcasts across the country.

From there I moved to NASA in Clear Lake, Texas, as a video and audio technician and engineer. We processed, recorded and edited media from the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle, plus some unforgettable extras, like zero-gravity flights on the famous "Vomit Comet."

After NASA, I started my own company, installing audio, video, security, surveillance and automation systems in homes and businesses.

I stepped away from media for about ten years. Now I'm back, doing what I've always loved: pictures, sound and video. This time with the newest tools there are.

Why Portrait of a Lifetime

Every portrait we make starts with a real photo of a real person, and ends with a picture that photo could never be. I check every face, every proof and every frame the way I checked a live broadcast: nothing goes out until it's right.

Portrait of a Lifetime is an Axis Media company.