Hello, I'm

BLIND
MIKE

Michael Quarcoopome

Creator, photographer and brand marketer. I build campaigns, images and stories that make people feel seen — for my own audience and for the brands I partner with.

michael.quarcoopome01@gmail.com
Michael Quarcoopome standing in a navy suit with his hands clasped, looking toward the camera.
  • Content Creator
  • Photographer
  • Brand Marketing

Selected collaborations

  • Northline
  • Grayson & Co.
  • HALO Studios
  • Meridian
  • Ardent Athletic
  • Loop Coffee

Services

Four ways we can work together

Whether you need a face, an eye, or a strategy — every engagement starts with the same question: who are we trying to reach, and what do we want them to feel?

Brand Partnerships

I freelance with Vertex CGI, the studio behind the CGI and mixed-reality campaigns you've seen from Nike, Maybelline, Qatar Airways and Nissan — work that has pulled more than 20 billion organic views since 2022.

Alongside that I work as a liaison for brands and entities looking to partner with each other. My background in sales is what makes that part work: I know how to spot the fit, open the conversation, and keep both sides moving until it's signed.

  • Freelance production with Vertex CGI
  • Brand-to-brand introductions
  • Sales-led partnership strategy

Photography & Film

I freelance for businesses and individuals at every scale — from national parks down to headshots on a Saturday morning. Creative, modeling, real estate, entertainment: I shoot all of it, and the range is the point.

I've worked as a cameraman for ad production companies, and helped people build podcasts, music videos and every other kind of content the internet runs on.

  • Creative, modeling & editorial
  • Real estate & commercial
  • National parks & travel campaigns
  • Podcasts, music videos & ad crew

Content Strategy

A clear content system for brands and founders: what to post, why it works, and how to keep it running without burning out the people making it.

I travel for most of the projects I take on — national parks, mountains, wherever the work is. I sit down with partners and clients on location and build the idea from inside it, because experiencing a place is what gives you the perspective that actually holds an audience.

  • Channel & pillar audit
  • 90-day content calendar
  • On-location strategy sessions
  • Team training & handoff

Creative Consulting

Sessions and workshops for teams who have the budget and the tools but keep making work nobody remembers. We fix the idea before we spend on the execution.

And I don't just hand over guidance — when a project needs something I don't do myself, I know the people who do. I've recently started doing business with TikTok, helping UGC creators get into programs like TikTok One.

  • Brand story workshops
  • TikTok One onboarding for UGC creators
  • Vetted partner & crew network
  • Campaign concepting, speaking & panels
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Featured project

Bryce Canyon
National Park

I was commissioned alongside a group of other freelancers to make content for Bryce Canyon in Utah — one of the bigger jobs I've been part of, and a proper collective effort rather than a one-man shoot.

Before we shot anything, we hiked it. Down through the hoodoos and back along the rim, the whole team on foot. You can't sell somebody a place you've only seen from the car park — feeling the scale of it in person is what told us where to put the camera, and which angles would actually carry that thrill to an audience who'll never stand there themselves.

Location
Utah, USA
Role
Commissioned freelancer
Year
2024
Sunrise lighting the hoodoo rock spires of Bryce Canyon from the rim. Two of the crew standing on an outcrop above the canyon at golden hour. Michael Quarcoopome on the trail between the canyon walls during the hike. Wide view across the canyon with the switchback trail cutting through it.

On location

The work happens
where the story is

This is the kind of thing I mean by strategy on location. Colorado, January, before sunrise — flying the drone to find the shot rather than storyboarding it from a desk two thousand miles away.

Shot vertical on purpose. Most of what I deliver now lives on a phone screen, so that's the frame I compose for from the first take.

  • Drone & aerial
  • 4K capture
  • Vertical-first
Nature campaign · Colorado, January 2024 · shot on DJI

Behind the scenes

The best part is the making

Half the reason I still love this job is the people in it — crews, second shooters, producers, whoever is holding the reflector at six in the morning. Ideas get better every time somebody else puts a hand on them, and a good production team turns a shot list into a day you'd actually want to repeat. That's me and my videographer about ten seconds before this drone went up.

Michael Quarcoopome seated mid-conversation in a studio, a microphone on a boom arm beside him and a wood-slat wall behind.

About

The name stuck.
The work is the point.

I'm Michael Quarcoopome. Most people know me as Blind Mike — a nickname that followed me out of college and never left. I stopped fighting it a long time ago.

I've spent the better part of a decade on both sides of the camera: building an audience of my own, and helping brands build theirs. That mix is the whole advantage. I know what an agency deck promises, and I know what actually gets made at 6am on a shoot day with half the crew and none of the budget.

The thread through all of it — the photo series, the campaigns, the consulting — is the same. Get close to people. Take them seriously. Make something they'd be proud to be in.

Total reach
2.4M+
Campaigns
120+
Years creating
8
Brand partners
40+

Photo series · 2019

The Embrace
Series

I shot this in 2019, in my early days as a photographer. Times were hard in America and racial tension was running high — people were pulling back into their corners. I wanted to make something that argued the other way.

One frame, one hand in mine. I asked people on campus to hold on for a second while I took the picture — strangers, friends, people I'd never spoken to before that day.

Shot in black and white on a single lens. No lighting, no direction, no retouching. The whole message was unity: that underneath all of it we're the same, and that it costs nothing to hold on to someone for a moment.

Contact sheet of ten black-and-white Embrace Series portraits, each subject clasping the photographer's hand.

Content

What I've been making

Long-form, short-form, and everything shot on the way there.

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Journal

Writing on the work

Notes on creating, marketing, and the parts of this job nobody puts in the highlight reel.

Testimonials

What it's like to work with me

Mike showed up with a plan before we'd even signed. The campaign outperformed our paid spend by a distance, and he made it look easy.

DA Dana Aboagye Head of Brand, Northline

I've been photographed a hundred times. He's the only one who got a picture my mother cried at.

RO Ruth Osei Founder, HALO Studios

Two workshops with Mike did more for our content team than the agency retainer we'd been paying for a year and a half.

TM Tomas Meyer Marketing Director, Meridian

Newsletter

Every other Sunday

One email, twice a month: what I shot, what I learned, and one thing worth stealing for your own work. No pitches, no fluff.

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Contact

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