ABOUT
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| Michael Soluri is a New York City based portrait and documentary photographer. His assignments and projects have taken him into cultures across America, through Europe, India, Central and South America. His work is often noted for visually translating the immediacy of people and place within challenging, restrictive or high-security technological environments typically encompassing complex work cultures. As a result, Soluri creates and contributes work for corporate, institutional, national and international editorial magazines like Wired, Wired UK, Time, National Geographic Adventure, Discover Magazine, Kids Discover, BBC Horizons, New Scientist, Wunderwelt Wissen, Vanity Fair, Delta SKY, Forbes, Scholastic and GEO. Soluri’s work has been displayed in on-line photography galleries like TIME, NPR, Discover magazine, Wired UK, Popular Science, Space.Com, New Scientist and APERTURE. Soluri is also a videographer/DP with production experience in producing and shooting business-to-business marketing presentations for firms like Loral Space & Communications, Merck Pharmaceutical, Forbes, Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. Shooting in high definition, Soluri was additional camera for PBS NOVA’s "Hubble’s Amazing Rescue." For several years Soluri served as a photography consultant to the Hubble astronaut crew of STS 125 Atlantis. Prroviding both photographic seminars and individual one on one teaching, he discussed and demonstrated how to respond to and take more communicative, visually insightful photographs during their historic May 2009 shuttle mission that saved the Hubble Space Telescope. An essay on that teaching experience can be read in "Transcendence: Photographs by Space Shuttle Astronauts" in the February 2011 print edition of APERTURE magazine and its April 2011 online blog. As an author, a book reflecting this teaching and his three year documentation of the labor and tools of the final shuttle mission that saved the Hubble Space Telescope is being developed and is represented by HSG Literary Agency, New York City. Published in 10 languages, Soluri is co-author and picture editor of "Cosmos - Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe " (Duncan Baird, 2007 - paperback) and "What’s Out There – Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe" (Duncan Baird, 2005 - hardcover) where in addition, he secured Stephen Hawking to write the books’ forwards. As a result of Soluri’s expertise in the history of space exploration photography, he is the author of "Examining the Ionic and Re-discovering the Photography of Space Exploration in Context to the History of Photography" (in Remembering the Space Age, NASA History Office, 2009). He has lectured and presented his work at, among others, the Smithsonian Institute, the National Science Foundation, the Maine Desert Island Biological Institute and, on November 5 at Art's Quest's InVision Photo Festival in Bethlehem, PA. |
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