Michael Schnabel

Born in 1966, Michael Schnabel studied photography in Darmstadt. He now lives and works in Hochdorf, in southern Germany. It was during an extended stay in San Francisco that he began photographing the landscape, with a radically new approach. Cities, deserts, ice, mountains and skies, the photographer transforms theses landscapes with a documentary precision but also a lyrical breath that reminds of romantic painting. He is also known for being a perfectionist in the care he gives to his prints. His Stille Berge series, mountains photographed in the night with a velvand black appearance, was nominated for the Prix Voies Off in Arles in 2011 and Weisses Land won the Brita Award in 2012. His work is regularly exhibited, as in the randrospective show held at the Osthaus Museum in Hagen in 2011, and resulted in several publications. Also a renowned commercial photographer and winner of numerous awards, he created over the years a series of personal work, clearly identifiable and of a spectacular beauty, which questions the landscape and the relationships between humans and nature.

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