Michael Schultes

Date of birth: Dec., 19th, Place of birth: Landshut, Germany, current adress: Hammerweg 6, D-65589 Hadamar, Germany, Professional training: education to become an advertising photographer in Wiesbaden, Germany, assistent photographer in Wiesbaden and Hamburg, Germany. Now freelance photographer for fine art, advertising and editorial - What others write: from the book "the body": Michael Schultes is one of Germany's leading contemporary photographers. Among his recent work is an exploration of the visual universe dealing with pure naked beauty and imagination. We all like to fantasize, and what you cannot see or feel can often be more exiting when it is left to your imagination. The sexuality of a photograph has more to do with the photographers vision and the viewers fantasy than with what the model is wearing or not. Michael Schultes had just turned 27 when he discovered two very important qualities which have a central influence on his work: I find the body beautiful. Its form is ever changing, every body is able to provoke different reactions. The challenge for me is making photographs that reveal the body without totally exposing it. And on the other side he corroborates his doubtlessly elegant and dramatic photography by a h...

a lot of school... now shooting and teaching

Exhibitions (solo):
2022: Kultursommer Rheinland Pfalz - Ostwind, Impressions of eastern European countries
2018: industrial lost places Kultursommer Rheinland Pfalz
2014: Retro in Limburg
2013: Kreml at Kreml-Kulturhaus
2011: Venice Italy
2010: cuban cars in Wiesbaden
2008: oldtimers and youngtimers in Ingelheim
2007: "cuban streetlife"summer 2007: "pure fruits"
2005 "pure fruit", panoramic scenes and Vietnam in Gau-Algesheim
2005 pure fruit, at "Time and Place, the Landfried Experience" in Heidelberg, at 100see
2004 pure fruit, Zwickau, Germany
2004 Vietnamese people b/w, Wiesbaden, Germany 2004 Body Parts b/w, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 Body Art b/w, Aschaffenburg, Germany
2000 Vietnamese pople b/w, La Casa, Hanau, Germany 1994 Hohl-Kohl-lektion (Helmut Kohl and more), Brckenkopf Hanau, Germany
1990 Knells cats, Katzen und Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
1984 recent works Valentino, Frankfurt,Germany

Exhibitions (group):
2019: black and white - the power of colourlessness
SchwarzWeiss - Die Kraft der Farblosigkeit
2011: Montpellier
2010: Sevilla
2009: "Gazing at Beauty" at Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, FLA
2009: "Pisa" , Ingelheim
2006 starting May 5th in Munich at kunstkaufhausmuenchen.de
2006 starting march 23. "on skin -...