Having lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Milan and currently in New York City, Michael is passionate about using the medium of photography as a tool in the visual exploration of people in context to place. Influenced by the history of photography and film, his aesthetics explore both the visual and emotional possibilities in the making or editing of a photograph. As a result, he approaches his commissions and personal projects by portraying and discovering the illusive in people and locations throughout the world.

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 ErmenegildoZegna, the engineers and technicians found in the ”clean-rooms” of a NASA space flight center, or in the info-graphic design studio of Nigel Holmes.

Michael’s work has been published in a variety of American, European and Brazilian magazines, books, annual reports, institutional and non-profit print communications and online sites like:  Discover magazine, Wired, Space.Com, Ad Astra, BBC Focus, 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, Editora Abril, New York City Opera, South West Research Institute, New York and Rockefeller Universities.

Recently, Michael has begun to pursue opportunities in the exploration and science of space, a life-long passion for him. He has been involved in research, editing and occasionally writing content for print and electronic media. He recently co-authored What’s Out There – Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe. Published in nine languages by Duncan Baird Ltd, he researched and edited over 15,000 images. Ultimately, 212 photographs of seminal astronomical phenomena defined both the editorial framework and visual spirit of the book. Based on the quality of that work and with an introduction from the Vatican Observatory, he was able to secure Stephen Hawking to write the book’s forward.