Michael Soluri is a New York City based photographer.

Assignments have taken him across America, through Europe, India and Central and South America. They have been as varied as on the holy ghats of India’s Ganges River, for the summer collection for Ermenegildo Zegna, the engineers and technicians found in the ”clean-rooms” of NASA’s space flight centers, or in the info-graphic design studio of Nigel Holmes.

Michael’s work has been published (print/on-line) in a variety of American, European and Brazilian magazines, books, annual reports, corporate, institutional and non-profit communications like:  Discover magazine, Wired, Launch, Space.Com, Ad Astra, BBC Focus, Wunderwelt Wissen, GEO, Time, Forbes, Vanity Fair, Kids Discover, Delta Sky, Grazia, Amica, Vogue Brasil, Claudia, NASA, Loral Space & Communications, MasterCard, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, Merck, Steel Case, Feld Entertainment, Kimberly Clark, Simon & Schuster, Mondadori, Rizzoli, Duncan Baird, Editora Abril, New York City Opera, South West Research Institute, New York and Rockefeller Universities.

Profiled in Photo District News and on Space.Com for his expertise in the photography and editing of human and robotic space exploration, he has lectured at, among others, the Smithsonian Institute, the National Science Foundation and the Maine Desert Island Biological Institute.

Mark Mayfield, the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of LAUNCH wrote:  “For the better part of his career, New York City-based photographer Michael Soluri has captured various NASA events, missions and projects with his camera while also working in the far different worlds of fashion, travel and portraiture. His work has always evoked a strong sense of place—and one filled with human emotion, documented through a lens.”

In February 2007, Soluri secured access to the last shuttle service mission (SM4) of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the Johnson Space Center, Soluri portrayed and documented the shuttle Atlantis crew of STS 125/SM4 in the first creatively controlled portrait session of an astronaut crew in more than 25 years.  The results, as seen in Soluri’s on-line galleries, continue to be published in magazines around the world. Among them have been the August issue of DISCOVER, the September/October issue of LAUNCH magazine, the October issue of BBC Focus and the January (2009) issue of Wunderwelt Wissen.

Michael serves as a photographic consultant to the STS125/SM4 crew providing them guidance on how to make more communicative, visually insightful photographs during their historic mission while up at the Hubble Space Telescope. Under the exclusive auspices of the Hubble Space Telescope Mission Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Soluri continues to create an artistic and historical photographic documentation of SM4 (May 2009 launch) in all its facets from pre-launch, launch, mission and post-landing.

Currently published in eight languages, Soluri is co-author and picture editor of What’s Out There – Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe and Cosmos - Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe, where he secured Stephen Hawking to write the books’ forwards. For the NASA History Office, Soluri was chosen to author Examining the Ionic and Re-discovering the Photography of Space Exploration in Context to the History of Photography which will be published in December 2008 in “Remembering the Space Age” a major NASA history book that commemorates the first fifty years of human and robotic space exploration.