Yearly Archives: 2012

Michael Schmelling

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Michael Schmelling Resume

Michael Schmelling is a Brooklyn- and LA-based photographer and designer behind a series of narrative-driven photobooks — including The Plan, Atlanta: Hip Hop & The South, Your Blues, and Rise & Fall — each blending intimate portraiture with cultural undercurrents. Known for his editorial poise and self-published passion, Schmelling also runs 40 Worth St., a graphic-design studio that collaborates across photography, music, writing, and visual art.

Works on Paper

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For this body of work, Ion Zupcu utilizes the simplest of means. Manipulating sheets of black paper, he creates small sculptural objects that he photographs in natural light. The toned black-and-white photographs that the artist prints himself play on one’s perception of scale and shore up a variety of surprising associations.