photographer - 25 years - , painting artist - 30 years
Exhibitions (solo): 2007 "struggle for life" Impressions from Vietnam, Ingelheim ----- 2006 "cuban oldtimers" in Frankfurt am Main ----- 2006 "panoramic scenes of the world" in Heidelberg ----- 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), Brückenkopf Hanau, Germany ----- 1990 Knell's cats, Katzen und Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany ----- 1984 recent works, Valentino, Frankfurt, Germany ----- Exhibitions (group):
2008 "February is Love" Palm Beach, Florida ----- 2006 "on skin - the body as landscape" Palm Beach, Florida ----- 2005 at "Jazz for five" in Engelstadt ----- 2005 humans and nature, Ingelheim, Germany ----- 2005 wine art for five, Engelstadt, Germany ----- 2004 humanity, Beijing, China ----- 1997 Contemporary fashion photography, Airport gallery Frankfurt, Germany ----- 1997 Jaguar XK8, Airport gallery Frankfurt, Germany ----- 1997 Germans look at Germans, Fotomuseum.de ----- 1997 the color green, Fotomuseum.de -----
from the book. "the body":
Michael Schultes (born 1954) 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 hardly noticeable constructive framework. The camera empowers you to be intimate with the lens, sometimes in a way that may not be possible with another human. The lens is an eye that you can always trust, but not always control.
