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MICHAEL SCHMELLING’s Converse basketball ads (Anomaly) have hit the streets!  Michael shot stills & video for a big WIRED feature on “Process,” shot The Dream for the cover of THE FADER, and documented the Lower East Side gallery scene for W MAGAZINE.  Michael also tried his hand at theater lighting design with the production company Every House Has A Door, for a production at the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The play, “Let Us Think of These Things Always, Let Us Speak of Them Never,” will be shown in NYC and Chicago in 2011.

With The Lucie Foundation!  At Space1520!  Next Thursday (sorry, no fun link)!

Michael Schmelling recently shot several Converse basketball ads, a few favorites below!

Michael Schmelling’s Converse work is creeping up everywhere!

Michael has been all over the world shooting the Converse Spark project with our friends at Anomaly.

7 Cities, 2 Weeks + 2 Days

Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Portland

Here are some of our favorites:

In addition to his photography, Michael Schmelling has been dabbling in illustration and design for years, below is his first book cover, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

Both RJ Shaughnessy and Michael Schmelling contributed work to FotoFest 2010 in Houston, Texas!  Some photos of RJ’s work below, thanks to all of our Texas buddies who came out!

MICHAEL SCHMELLING continues working on his book in Atlanta, and shot two more campaigns for Converse Spark with Anomaly in Cleveland & New York.  Check out the New York Times review of “Ads,” “a boundary-pushing curio from the theatrical auteur Richard Maxwell at Performance Space 122,” (a co-presentation of the Coil Festival and Under the Radar).  Director of Photography is none other than our own Michael Schmelling.   Alec Soth named THE PLAN one of the top photo books of 2009, as did Photo-Eye.  Congrats!

Congratulations Michael Schmelling! The full list is on The Little Brown Mushroom Blog, check it out!